Visit The Witch Museum and Cave in Zugarramurdi, the Basque Country, Spain

Zugarramurdi is a small village with less than 250 population, however, this village is kinda popular for the witch things. It has a witch museum and when you enter it, you will see the skelton of the goat.

Here…maybe they had some witches’ information at the church or something.

This is what the witches wore at that time.

Here’s a bed for a withch.

And this is a duplicated kitchen that the witches used to use. Technically, they were not witches but they spoke a different language which was Basque and they were more clever than priests or other people. So, they were afraid of the witches occupy the territory or they may have had the power to organize the area.

In the end, some Christians started witch-hunting…

Zugarramurdi is very very interesting village to visit. You may better to come to see this place sometime soon.

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Medieval times were interesting not just in Europe but across the world except that the witch-hunting practices from Romania are a bit glorified and to an extent romanticized.

Superstitions were widespread all over the world but it is surprising to see that the witch practices were prevalent in Spain as well which most of the world knows for its adventurous and enterprising sailors who ventured out for trade and commanded the famous Spanish armada.

The museum too is quite interesting @Annachan16 - thank you for sharing an off-beat place.

From their articles of daily use, the witch community seems to be normal people except they were in pursuit of something of interest to them, in a bit unconventional way, hence largely not understood or misunderstood by the rest of the world.

And as you mentioned it was threatening to the power of the church explains why they were vilified during those days.