The song is about Lasse Birgitta, who was an alleged Swedish witch and was the first woman executed for sorcery in Sweden; She died in 1550 on the Swedish island of Öland. In April of 1550, Lasses Birgitta, which means "Birgitta, Wife of Lasse", confessed to the bailiff and the secretary at Kalmar Castle that she had tried to awaken a dead man in Kastlösa cemetery at midnight.
Reportedly, on one night, Birgitta and two men had entered the church yard with the intent of awakening one of the dead by magic. Birgitta blew through the keyhole of the church until it opened, trying to get hold of the stole, a liturgical vestment of various Christian denominations, which symbolizes priestly authority, but didn't find it and left, locking the door the same way she entered it. After another attempt on a different occasion, she had succeeded in getting the stole, passed the church three times against the sun, renounced God, and swore herself to the Devil. The court judged Birgitta guilty of sorcery and sentenced her to death by decapitation; The song itself changes this to a burning to fit with the knowledge of which burnings.
The song is about Lasse Birgitta, who was an alleged Swedish witch and was the first woman executed for sorcery in Sweden; She died in 1550 on the Swedish island of Öland. In April of 1550, Lasses Birgitta, which means "Birgitta, Wife of Lasse", confessed to the bailiff and the secretary at Kalmar Castle that she had tried to awaken a dead man in Kastlösa cemetery at midnight.
Reportedly, on one night, Birgitta and two men had entered the church yard with the intent of awakening one of the dead by magic. Birgitta blew through the keyhole of the church until it opened, trying to get hold of the stole, a liturgical vestment of various Christian denominations, which symbolizes priestly authority, but didn't find it and left, locking the door the same way she entered it. After another attempt on a different occasion, she had succeeded in getting the stole, passed the church three times against the sun, renounced God, and swore herself to the Devil. The court judged Birgitta guilty of sorcery and sentenced her to death by decapitation; The song itself changes this to a burning to fit with the knowledge of which burnings.