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The Zugarramurdi Witches
Zugarramurdi Witches is the name by which the most famous case in the history of Basque Witchcraft and possibly witchcraft in Spain is known. The focus of witchcraft was found in the town of Navarre Pyrenees Zugarramurdi and the process was led by the tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition in Logroño. In the auto de fe ("act of faith". it was the ritual of public penance of condemned heretics and apostates that took place when the Spanish Inquisition, Portuguese Inquisition or the Mexican Inquistion had decided their punishment, followed by the execution by the civil authorities of the sentences imposed) held in that city on 7 and 8 November 1610 eighteen people were reconciled because they confessed their sins and appealed to the mercy of the court, but the six who resisted were burned alive five in effigy because they had dead.
Background: the witch hunt in the country of Labort (1609)
The persecution of witches Labort in the Basque Country, was the work of the parlement of Bordeaux judge Pierre de Lancre, commissioned by King Henry IV of France in response to the request made by Mr. D'Amou and D'Uturbie for that would end the "plague" of sorcerers and witches as they ravaged the country. We know the performance of De Lancre thanks to two books published after and had a huge success: Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et demons (1612) and L'incrédulité et du sortilege plainement mescréance convaincue (1622)
«Witch-scene2» por Michael Herr (1650) - Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg. Disponible bajo la licencia Dominio público vía Wikimedia Commons.
The arrival of Lancre and his subordinates to Labort caused panic and many families went to Navarra crowding at the border. In his two books Lancre account what he believed find out: which in a place called Iane de Aquelarre every day and even during the day witches and wizards met together , and they worshipped the goat. But the devil could take other forms, the Tableau featured a picture of a coven that had a great impact, and was torn from many copies of the book; disasters which happened in Labort such as large storms that caused shipwrecks, were the work of witches and wizards; that witches and wizards used ointments to go flying to the coven, to turn themselves into beasts or producing other wonders and malefic effects; that black masses in which black hosts and satanic cults were enshrined, copied from Christian and sometimes officiated by sacrilegious priests (for that reason Lancre ordered the arrest and torture of several clerics in the area, without further proof or certain"witnessed" evidence , like a very old and deranged priest who confessed that he had given devil worship, and would be executed for it "as examples" -some of imprisoned priests managed to escape before being executed).
( Zugarramurdi Cave)
What De Lancre thought to find out was given him by statements obtained from children, older adults and tortured. He also had to use translators because he did not understand Basque Language (Euskera), and asCaro Baroja noted , "sometimes transcribed bad names" and some words in Basque "he seems not to have understood the meaning in a broad statement." Here's how De Lancre concluded that there were more than three thousand people who had the mark of the witchcraft in Labort
Pierre de Lancre ordered 80 alleged witches burning and panic moved to the northern valleys of Navarra. precisely the core of the new outbreak of witchcraft was located in the area adjacent to the country of Labort in northern Navarra, more specifically Zugarramurdi.
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http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brujas_de_Zugarramurdi
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