Case file · Witch trials
Julia Carta, the healer of Siligo
Julia Carta, a healer from Siligo in Sardinia, was tried by the Spanish Inquisition from 1596; under torture she confessed to pacts with the devil, then abjured and was sentenced to prison.
1596 CE · 40.58, 8.73 · status: official
The sceptical view
Her trial record is a key source on Sardinian folk medicine as inquisitors recast it.