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The Witch trials in Spain were few in comparison with most of Europe. The Spanish Inquisition preferred to focus on the crime of heresy and, consequently, did not consider the persecution of witchcraft a priority and in fact discouraged it rather than have it conducted by the secular courts.
Nelson A. Rockefeller Park is an enclave within Battery Park City in New York City. The following institutions and facilities have been named in honor of Nelson A. Rockefeller: The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, Dartmouth College, a social science research center. [158]
The Spanish Inquisition did not always succeed in keeping the secular courts from dealing with witchcraft cases, and a failure to do so resulted in a great witch hunt in Catalonia in 1618-1622, with about one hundred victims until it was subdued. [1] After 1622, witch trials in Spain dwindled until the mid-17th century.
Alonso de Salazar y Frías. Alonso de Salazar Frías has been given the epithet "The Witches’ Advocate" [1] by historians, for his role in establishing the conviction, within the Spanish Inquisition, that accusations against supposed witches were more often rooted in dreams and fantasy than in reality, and the inquisitorial policy that witch accusations and confessions should only be given ...
Marshack, an aide to Rockefeller, was with the former VP when he died suddenly in 1979. She later lived and worked as a reporter in Placerville. Megan Marshack, forever linked with former VP ...
The Salem witch trials followed in 1692–93. These witch trials were the most famous in British North America and took place in the coastal settlements near Salem, Massachusetts. Prior to the witch trials, nearly three hundred men and women had been suspected of partaking in witchcraft, and nineteen of these people were hanged, and one was ...
Later, the Pendle witch trials of 1612 joined the ranks of the most famous witch trials in English history. [64] The Malefizhaus of Bamberg, Germany, where suspected witches were held and interrogated. 1627 engraving. In England, witch-hunting would reach its apex in 1644 to 1647 due to the efforts of Puritan Matthew Hopkins.
In Sant Feliu de Pallerols, Pere Torrent "Cufí" was executed for being a wizard. In 1622, the Royal Audience and the Spanish Inquisition took control over the witch hunt, which resulted in less executions until the witch hunt ended in 1627. A second witch hunt took place in 1643, when 32 women were put on trial for sorcery in Capcir.