![]() Many of them were marched to prisons and died along the way, while others were quickly burned at the stake. 53 individuals were found guilty of practicing witchcraft. Over 7,000 individual cases were tried, mainly focusing on the woman accused, although plenty of men and children were included as well. ![]() They rounded up the accused in 1610 and tried them in nearby Logroño in the largest trial of its kind in history. The truth of these myths cannot be proven, but in reality, these myths were powerful enough to scare the Spanish government into bringing the inquisition to the gate of Zugarramurdi. ![]() ![]() These macabre meetings were supposedly conducted and lead by a large billy goat which spoke and issued commands to the enraptured sabbath of witches who gathered. The town of Zugarramurdi on the Basque border in northern Spain may be small but during the 17th century Spanish Inquisition the rural settlement was the focus of one of the largest witch trials in history which ended in the deaths of countless innocents and it is the folk beliefs and lives of these victims that are remembered in the Zugarramurdi Witch Museum.Īccording to legend, a young woman from the town had the power to fly, and strange occult activities were held by women regularly in a cave and a meadow known as the “Akelarre” (translating as the “meadow of the he-goat” in Basque) near town. ![]()
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