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Inquisitor Pierre de Lancre starts witch hunting in Lapurdi

415
years ago

02 July 1609,

Inquisitor Pierre de Lancre started a “witch hunt” in Lapurdi. In your language, customs, ways of working, etc. I only saw the touch of the devil. “They speak in strange and unknown language; that is the first bad sign,” he wrote. In his trials at Senpere Castle he tortured and killed 200 people, mostly women.

Source:

Iñaki Egaña, brief history of the Basque Country. (Txalaparta).

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