The truth about Catalonia's witches and witch-hunts

Filling the Sink - A podcast by catalannews - Saturdays

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Sònia Casas from the Barcelona-based history magazine Sàpiens joins Alan Ruiz Terol and Lorcan Doherty to separate fact from fiction when it comes to the story of witch-hunts in Catalonia. As a recent Sàpiens issue dedicated to the subject puts it: They weren't witches, they were women.  Pau Castell, a historian at the University of Barcelona who has dedicated his career to studying witches, talks about his research.   Filling the Sink recreates the seventeenth-century trial of Elisabet Cerdana, which took place in the village of Castellterçol in central Catalonia.