Case file · Witch trials
María Soliña, the meiga of Cangas
After a Turkish pirate raid devastated Cangas in 1617, the Inquisition tried local women as meigas (witches); María Soliña, a widow of the raid, was condemned in 1621.
1621 CE · 42.26, -8.78 · status: official
The account
She became a symbol of the persecution of Galician women, celebrated in Celso Emilio Ferreiro's poem. 'Haberlas, haylas' ('there are some') sums up the Galician attitude to meigas.