The Icelandic pastor Jón Magnússon completed his Píslarsaga, or Story of My Sufferings, in 1659. The work described alleged witchcraft persecution and personal torment in a remote Lutheran society. It belongs to a northern tradition where saga memory, legal testimony and religious autobiography overlapped.

The Píslarsaga is a powerful example of marginal life writing outside major European capitals. It preserves oral accusation, fear and local belief in prose shaped by older Icelandic narrative habits.