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Parliament of Catalonia approves 'initiative about witches' burnt centuries ago

The Parliament of Catalonia recognized women who were burned for witchcraft centuries ago as "victims of misogynistic persecution". The resolution on the restoration of the memory of witches killed between the 15th and 18th centuries was approved by the deputies of this Spanish region by an absolute majority.

As the document notes, many women were unjustly accused of witchcraft, tortured and executed only because they were visitors, adhered to other customs or professed a different religion, or simply because of a conflict with their neighbors. Any behavior that went beyond "normal" could doom them to death. According to MP Susana Segovia, it was a real "feminicide".

Catalonia was one of the main regions in Europe where the most active witch-hunts unfolded. In the town of Pallars Sobira, the oldest witchcraft law in the Old World was passed, dated 1424. It was here that the most executions in Europe were carried out. According to historians, over three centuries, about 800 people were killed in Catalonia, who were suspected of witchcraft (80 percent of them were women, which was seized on by the current feminists who came up with the idea of ​​their rehabilitation).

Since it is not possible to find out the names of most of them, the Catalan parliament decided to rehabilitate all the victims of the witch hunt at once. The municipal authorities are invited to name the streets after the burnt witches (in the past, for this it was necessary to become famous, for example, by performing a feat or making a scientific discovery).

Parliament of Catalonia approves 'initiative about witches' burnt centuries ago