Case file · Witch trials
Tribunal of the Inquisition in Lima
The Holy Office opened in Lima in 1570; besides heresy cases it tried women for hechicería (sorcery), love magic and pacts with the devil, often involving coca and Andean ritual.
1570 CE · -12.05, -77.03 · status: official
The account
Indigenous people were outside its jurisdiction, so it mostly tried Spaniards, mestizos and Afro-Peruvians; native 'idolaters' were pursued by separate extirpation campaigns.