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The first person to be tried and executed during the Salem witch trials. [23] Elizabeth Howe: 1635–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged during the Salem witch trials. George Burroughs: c. 1650–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Congregational pastor, executed as part of the Salem witch trials. [24] George Jacobs: 1620–1692: Massachusetts ...
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.
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 ...
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.
How historians and commentators have viewed the Spanish Inquisition has changed over time and continues to be a source of controversy. Before and during the 19th century, historical interest focused on who was being persecuted. In the early and mid-20th century, historians examined the specifics of what happened and how it influenced Spanish ...
In the historical folklore of Sicily, Doñas de fuera (Spanish for "Ladies from the Outside"; Sicily was under Spanish rule at the time) were supernatural female beings comparable to the fairies of English folklore. In the 16th to mid-17th centuries, the doñas de fuera also played a role in the witch trials in Sicily.
Petri de Joangorena (died in Logrono, Spain, 1 November 1610) was a Spanish alleged witch. [1] He was one of the people charged with sorcery in the Basque witch trials (1609-1614), and one of only six people executed of 7,000 who were accused. He came from Ezpeleta (Lapurdi) in Navarre. He was arrested by the inquisitor Valle Alvarado in 1609.
Maria Baztan de Borda (died in Logrono, Spain, 1 November 1610) was a Spanish alleged witch. [1] She was one of the people charged with sorcery in the Basque witch trials (1609-1614), and one of only six of 7.000 accused to be executed. She was the widow of the farmer Martin de Arburu. She was arrested by the inquisitor Valle Alvarado in 1609.