The legal procedure by which the sorceresses were declared as such during the Average Age judgment could not be called properly. The test used to be irrelevant and it was never called to no witness so that it testified against the defendant. A jurist expressed that: the sorceresses act at night and privily, and a clear test of such actions is impossible. If the defendant were called to a witness she could not do any question to him and she could not either call to his own witnesses. In exceptional cases he only allowed myself that a witchcraft defendant could have a defender, but few lawyers wanted to defend a sorceress because he represented to defend the devil and he supposed an evident heresy.

The public prosecutor called to witnesses who in any other judgment had been desehechados: close relatives, servant and even excomulgadas people. The children were the preferred informers and witnesses, getting to present/display tests against their parents. To the children it was possible to be persuaded to them or to be forced to that they presented/displayed a condemnatory testimony.

The element most important to declare convicta to a sorceress, besides the confession, indicates was them: the signs of which a person was sorceress. They could be from the appearance, the fame or possession of mascots, to being surprised executing an act of black magic, like throwing water to the air to bring about a storm. It indicates them could be light (remote), serious (propinquina), or incriminatory (propinquissima). Most serious they included facts as it denounces of an accomplice, a pact with the devil, relation with met sorceresses, public rumor, possession of magical material (flying ointments)

The presumption was sufficient to accuse of witchcraft, to interrogate it, to jab it and to torture it. In all the countries, except in England, the extreme physical torture was used to assure the confession and the names other sorceresses. One thought that the witchcraft was not a physical crime, but spiritual, and it only could try on by means of confession. As the heresy deserved the death nobody confessed voluntarily. That's why one was due to force to confess, and the best way to obtain it was causing as much pain that the death got to be a preferable alternative.

At the time of the execution one summoned to the public to touch of trompetas and bells. A procession headed by the judicial and civil authorities, and members of the clergy, marched slowly towards the execution place. The twig and its assistants, took to the condemned with tied ropes to their necks if they could walk. If with the torture they had been llebavan disabled them in stretcher. They could include a choir of school children and all the courtship intoned hymns of way to the pyre.

If a sorceress did not confess, or if she blasphemed, or if she had not cooperated in the judgment, or if the judge were particularly cruel, the victim was burned alive with fire of green firewood, which caused one more a prolonged and painful death.

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