Case file · Witch trials
Navarre witch hunt of 1525
In 1525–27 royal commissioner Pedro de Balanza toured Navarrese valleys, convicting dozens of people of witchcraft; the Inquisition then debated whether witches really fly.
1525 CE · 42.90, -1.30 · status: official
The account
A conference of theologians at Granada in 1526 was divided on whether witches truly attended sabbaths. The episode prefigures the larger Basque hunt of 1609–14.