The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History

by Jan Machielsen

In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four months, they executed up to 80 women and men for the crime of witchcraft, causing a wave of suspects to flee into Spain and sparking terror there. Witnesses, many of them children, described lurid tales of cannibalism, vampirism, and demonic sex. One of the judges,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350441503
• ISBN13: 9781350441507
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.4"