El “informe del inquisidor Avellaneda” sobre las complicidades brujeriles en los valles centrales y orientales del Pirineo navarro. [The «report of the inquisitor Avellaneda» on the witch collusions in the central and eastern Navarrese Pyrenean valleys]

Abstract

New edition of the Report of Avellaneda about the witchcraft in the valleys of the Pyrenees of Navarre. We display a synoptic edition of four versions of the text (A-D), two of them edited by Caro in 1933 and two new versions kept in the Archivo Histórico Nacional and the Academia de las Ciencias Morales y Políticas. After a brief survey of the witchcraft-madness in Navarre in the 16th century, we analyze the content of the report, we make some considerations about the author of the base-text and launch the hypothesis of its further rewrite by fray Antonio de Guevara in the frame of the debate held in the Junta de Granada (1526) about the witchcraft.