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The thief hanged by a pig

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Posted on 2020-09-11 in

José Arrue. Digitized postcard (1). Labayru Fundazioa Photographic Archive.

The Madrid-based daily El Universal, published between 1820 and 1823, the so-called Liberal Triennium in which repression on the press, general during the reign of Ferdinand VII, somewhat decreased, reported on 9 September 1820, citing the fleetingly blooming Gipuzkoan liberal press of the time (more particularly El Liberal Guipuzcoano: a philosophical, literary and commercial periodical), an event which had occurred (it was said) in Bayonne a few days earlier: (more…)

Cartomancy, crime and rural drama

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Posted on 2020-03-06 in
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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