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Joel Robert Ballard
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' ... the territory's location fed conflicts over power and resources that tore at its social fabric. The most powerful actor in this witch hunt, the Franco-Spanish border, is still working its magic on us today: by making the witch hunt look like, quite literally, a fringe event from the French perspective, it has removed the long and persistent history of Basque witchcraft beliefs from view.'
— Dec 26, 2024 12:18PM
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Joel Robert Ballard
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'Witchcraft was in the eye of the beholder: witches were, in other words, witches to other people. Many were also mothers or fathers, daughters or sons, or as in the case of the Goyetche family, brothers and sisters. Executions, far from offering a cure, left festering wounds; relatives whose reputations were also tarnished and whose anger was unlikely to abate any time soon'.
— Dec 24, 2024 08:38AM
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Joel Robert Ballard
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Introduction, The Summer of 1609
'Like wagon tracks on a well-trodden path, the traditional narrative, repeated across the ages, is impossible to avoid completely. But there is a secret, untold history out there to discover, and our own direction should be clear.'— Jan Machielsen
— Dec 22, 2024 01:01PM
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'Like wagon tracks on a well-trodden path, the traditional narrative, repeated across the ages, is impossible to avoid completely. But there is a secret, untold history out there to discover, and our own direction should be clear.'— Jan Machielsen
