is curious that we always have to throw the British Isles to find proceedings against witches in the pre-Renaissance. Therefore, in this case, I want to pay tribute to women unjustly accused (and others with some merit, though few) called "witches" local, more specifically, the witches of the Pyrenees.
Riu Joanna, a resident of Pobleta of Bellveí, Lleida, was one of those people who, without eating or drinking, was accused of witchcraft by neighbors more than 25 November 1539.
However, besides the typical accusations made against him, can poison livestock and food, make dolls with needles (which in this case turned out to be chicks wax), and the familiar intercourse with the Devil, was charged with Joanna for a fact that, whatever its nature, was something real.
A man of the people carried their sick child Joanna, and Joanna who apparently had the ability to heal the sick (curious fact to point in the field of anthropology). Unfortunately, it is explained that after doing an herbal preparation caught the night of San Juan, Joanna proceeded to heal him, but the boy died instantly. Maybe for revenge (most likely), but with a tinge of reality, Joanna had knowledge of "pseudo-medicine", and was known for it in town.
Other charges with less reason, that almost certainly came from the witch craze, included the fact of having seen Joanna a frog in the knees (in Catalonia closely related to witches) and the private prosecution of a neighbor, the cooked blamed for poisoned cheese.
All "evidence", however they were denied by Joanna, were sufficient to take Joanna to horrific torture sessions, and finally, in 1540, tied up on a bench Joanna barefoot to a bonfire that was burning his feet. Joanna confessed everything and more. His death was lost in history.
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