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Inquisitor Pierre de Lancre starts witch hunting in Lapurdi

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.

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