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Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx. Landes, c. 1900. Archives Départementales des Landes

Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx. Landes, c. 1900. Archives Départementales des Landes [Departmental Archives of the Landes].

A terrifying report saw the light of day on the front page of the Madrid daily La España on 18 April 1858, published from 1848 to 1868 with the support of Pedro Egaña, an Álava native entrepreneur, and the Navarrese politician and writer Francisco Navarro Villoslada, leading representatives of ultraconservatism in 19th-century Spain:

By a witch

According to news from Bayonne, the village of Saint-Martin, a league distant from the mentioned city, has been the scene of a double crime which has caused deep distress among its peaceful inhabitants. (more…)

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