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I love (read: hate) how being a witch wasn’t the real problem. The real problem was that she had no affiliation with the church.

• forinti 5y ago
  I think you had to be baptized in order to fall under the jurisdiction of the Church and be fair game to the Inquisition. There was a case in Spain (or maybe Portugal) in which Jews were tricked into converting and were then judged by the Inquisition. Then again, I don't think rules were really a problem.
  • hutzlibu 5y ago
    Not being baptized meant being fair game in general in those times.
  • forinti 5y ago
    As I got a couple of downvotes, I decided to verify it. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition): "The Inquisition, as a church-court, had no jurisdiction over Moors and Jews as such.[10] Generally, the Inquisition was concerned only with the heretical behaviour of Catholic adherents or converts.[11]"