The Spanish Witches of Cartagena

Re:The Spanish Witches of Cartagena by imoverclocked on Friday May 14, 2021 @05:42PM (#27160024)

I love (read: hate) how being a witch wasn’t the real problem. The real problem was that she had no affiliation with the church.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The Spanish Witches of Cartagena by forinti on Friday May 14, 2021 @06:03PM (#27160170)

I think you had to be baptized in order to fall under the jurisdiction of the Church and be fair game to the Inquisition.

There was a case in Spain (or maybe Portugal) in which Jews were tricked into converting and were then judged by the Inquisition.

Then again, I don't think rules were really a problem.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The Spanish Witches of Cartagena by forinti on Saturday May 15, 2021 @10:33AM (#27165565)

As I got a couple of downvotes, I decided to verify it.

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition):

"The Inquisition, as a church-court, had no jurisdiction over Moors and Jews as such.[10] Generally, the Inquisition was concerned only with the heretical behaviour of Catholic adherents or converts.[11]"

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The Spanish Witches of Cartagena by hutzlibu on Saturday May 15, 2021 @01:54AM (#27162796)

Not being baptized meant being fair game in general in those times.

[ Parent | on HN ]