The Salazar documents : : Insquisitor Alonso de Salazar Frias and others on the Basque witch persecution / / edited by Gustav Henningsen.

• Superior document: Cultures, beliefs, and traditions, v. 21
• TeilnehmendeR: Henningsen, Gustav.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English; Spanish
• Series: Cultures, beliefs, and traditions ; v. 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (532 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Early in the 17th century the Western Pyrenees were riven by one of the greatest witch panics in history. The mountain villages were in uproar when villagers' children reported how they had been abducted during the night and taken to a witches' sabbath. The abducters denounced by the "child-witches" were subjected to violence and illegal torture to wrest confessions from them. A series of eye-witness reports written by a Jesuit, a Bishop, and a Spanish Inquisitor show a surprising lack of interest in the demonological theories of their time, and analyse the phenomenon from its psychological, sociological and anthropological angles. Part One discusses the anatomy of this collective nightmare or dream-epidemic, and provides an introduction to a bilingual edition of the reports in Part Two.

Table of Contents

Preface -- Note on Editorial Principles and the Translation -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- List of Illustrations -- PART ONE: THE CONTEXT -- The Salazar Documents -- The Witchcraft Policy of the Spanish Inquisition -- The Return of the Witch-Burning -- The Mountains of Navarra -- The Basque Witch-Craze -- The Interpretation of Witchcraft -- PART TWO: THE DOCUMENTS -- 1. The Discovery of Witchcraft -- 2. The Disclosures of the Jesuit -- 3. The Recommendations of the Bishop -- 4. The Instructions of the Inquisition Council -- 5. The Investigations of Inquisitor Salazar -- 6. From the Battle over the Witches -- 7. The Final Resolution -- Bibliography -- Index (names, places, subjects).