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The Child Witches of Olague
2024
Overview
In the early seventeenth century, thousands of children in
Spain's Navarre region claimed to have been bewitched. The
Child Witches of Olague features the legal depositions of
self-described child witches as well as their parents and victims.
The volume sheds new light on Navarre's massive witch persecution
(1608-14), illuminating the tragic cost of witch hunts and opening
a new window onto our understanding of early modern Iberian
life.
Drawing from Spanish-language sources only recently discovered,
Homza translates and annotates three court cases from Olague in
1611 and 1612. Two were defamation trials involving the slur
\"witch,\" and the third was a petition for divorce filed by an
accused witch and wife. These cases give readers rare access to the
voices of illiterate children in the early modern period. They also
speak to the emotions of witch-hunting, with testimony about
enraged, terrified parents turning to vigilante justice against
neighbors. Together the cases highlight gender norms of the time,
the profound honor code of early modern Navarre, and the power of
children to alter adult lives.
With translations of Inquisition correspondence and printed
pamphlets added for context, The Child Witches of Olague
offers a portrait of witch-hunting as a horrific, contagious
process that fractured communities. This riveting, one-of-a-kind
book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of witch
hunts, life in early modern Spain, and history as revealed through
court testimony.
