Case file · Witch trials
The great Catalan witch hunt
Between 1616 and 1622 local secular courts in Catalonia hanged a large number of supposed witches, by some counts more than 300, before royal intervention in 1622.
1619 CE · 42.10, 1.80 · status: official
The sceptical view
Totals are uncertain; historians stress that local courts, not the Inquisition, did most of the killing, while the Inquisition was sceptical after 1614.