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They did burn some witches, to be sure. I mean, if you’re torturing and killing people for various real and bullshit crimes, you might as well include the stray witch you come across. But technically their purview was rooting out heresy among baptized Christians.
Earlier, Jews and Muslims had been forced to either convert to Catholicism or leave Spain; now, the Inquisition was tasked with finding people who said they were Christians but were actually practicing other religions in secret. Along the way, they rounded up various others they saw as heretics and criminals, questioned and tortured them, and then announced their verdicts at public festivals/executions known as autos-da-fé (“acts of faith”).
In the Inquisition, about 7,000 people were accused of witchcraft, with only about a dozen being convicted and executed for it. If you want to find a real hotbed of witch burning, you have to look elsewhere, such as the area now known as Germany, where witchcraft trials and executions were much more popular. In one region with a population of 2,200 people, an estimated 500 were burned as witches.
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