Abstract

LOPEZ RIDAURA, Cecilia. The mexican Inquisition facing the witchcraft crime. Prosecutor Antonio de Bergosa and the San Francisco de los Pozos witches. memorias [online]. 2022, n.47, pp.85-107.  Epub Aug 03, 2022. ISSN 1794-8886.  https://doi.org/10.14482/memor.47.272.21.

The Inquisition in Nueva España, derived from Spanish Inquisition, had among its activities and due to its heretical and superstitious character, the persecution of witchcraft. Nevertheless, throughout its three centuries of operation, few processes carried out all the way to sentencing as recorded in the inquisitorial documentation. This work will show an example of the "gleams of wholesome scepticism and honest desire to reach the truth" attempted by authorities of the Spanish Inquisition even since the 16th century, detected by Henry Charles Lea (2020).

Keywords : Canon espicopi; Enlightenment; skepticism; credulity.

        · abstract in Spanish | Portuguese     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )