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Witchcraft in the Vallès

If we talk about the previous game Maresme, today we embark on a trip to the neighboring region: the Village. This part of Catalunya is, as the Maresme, an important point in the geography pagan witch and the country folk. In this region comes from geographical points of interest, and which is significantly more important, numerous cases of real witch persecution. Undertake, because, again, this journey into the past.

geographical points:

• Vallgorguina (Parc Natural Montnegre Corridor i): surely the crux of both the Vallès and the Maresme. In this municipality is the Pedra Gentil dolmen, which, although he was removed from its original location, is still one of the most critical of the geography magic Catalunya. Even today still gather, as they say in folklore, witches around the dolmen to hold their meetings on key dates in the calendar. El Pla de les Bruixes, located in Vallgorguina is also an important point, considered as a point of meeting and celebration of rituals.

• Coll i was i Pic de les Bruixes (Vacarisses): these points Natural Park of Montserrat also considered legendary meeting places of witches. It was also an important point to be a crossroads, and we know that the crossroads always have a place in the popular imagination.

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• Camí de les Bruixes (Gualba) Gorg Negre legend says that before going to the Pla de les Bruixes Vallgorguina, witches were in the Gorg Negre, and that the Devil bathed in its waters. Apel · les Mestres, the Catalan folk singer, has already in the past held a blessing of Gorg Negre and had it planted in him a cross to ward off witches.

• Puig Aguilar - Can Camp (Caldes de Montbui) Venue of covens. Women accused of witchcraft, they said, during his confession, that after making his dealings with the devil dancing on the rocks of the hill, and created storms with water from the adjacent creek.

should be added to these sites of interest, the party of "Escaldarium" Caldes de Montbui: it is said that the origin of the hot springs of Caldes has a legendary origin. And in this case was due to witchcraft, so that every July 15 the village people gathered to celebrate around the source of the Lion.

Cases of witchcraft. Actual trials:

There are numerous files where it is said that in several populations of the Vallès-East and West-catching women accused of witchcraft was not an isolated phenomenon. In the seventeenth century was the climax of barbarism.

• La Garriga: the first people of the valley where a woman accused of witchcraft and locked in prison. This marked a before and after in the Village. From this process, the bishop began to warn the other municipalities of the "dangers" of witchcraft, and measures had to be taken in this regard.

• Caldes de Montbui (1619): in this population were captured two women and Margarida Eulalia Puig i Pujol Ras, which in turn gave names of other witches: Ursula Roca i Beya, Catherine David, Maria's " Gavatx "Elizabeth Rossell, Magdalena Vadrena, Durga, na na Sobragran and Casavellor. They also were caught. In November of that year he managed to capture them all, and began the torture, made under the supervision of a surgeon, a notary and a scribe. Finally all were executed by hanging or burning at the stake, despite confessing to reach all charges of which they are accused. It is known that torture is based on the naked women sitting in a chair and tortured until he said the names of the persons who are suspected.

• Granollers : The borough president was informed by the torture occurred in Caldes, who had witches in Granollers, which was accused, imprisoned and sentenced to six women: Eulàlia Lafarga, Elionor Reig, Gabriela Boira, Anna boirons, Solera, Margarida Rosa, Joan Vives and James Fonolleda. All the accused were hanged between 1619 and 1620. from that point began the craze brujas.Y hunting with it, the witch hunters: Cosme Font and Jaume Solé. They became famous and respected throughout Catalonia, and were considered experts on witch-marks found in the body of the accused.

• Terrassa : in this population was established law that was allowed to punish any person who was accused of witchcraft. 5 women were captured, marked: Toy joana, joana Sabina, Miguel Casanovas, the Esclopera, Eulàlia Totxa and Guillem Font. They were imprisoned and eventually hanged on June 26, 1619.

• Gualba: in that town meeting was convened on January 14, 1619. 39 people agreed to establish guidelines for prosecution, trapping and feeding of detainees, and how to pay the costs. Since then, news came of people hanging around cemeteries, but the local priest decided to ignore any rumors.

Over time, obviously, the witch hunt led to a series of indiscriminate charges, accusing the widow all alone or that seems suspicious. From that moment, everything bad is due to the superstition that witches were guilty of bad harvests, diseases and pests that were, an event which the witch hunters took advantage to finish.