About the author
Lu Ann Homza is a historian specializing in early modern Spain, including its religious institutions and witch persecutions. Her book The Child Witches of Olague, published by Penn State University Press, presents legal depositions from an early seventeenth-century witch panic in Spain's Navarre region, in which thousands of children claimed to have been bewitched. Drawing on the testimony of self-described child witches along with their parents and alleged victims, the book sheds light on one of the largest witch persecutions in Navarre's history and on how such cases were investigated and recorded by Spanish authorities. Homza's approach is documentary and source-based, situating the material within the legal and religious institutions of the period rather than offering a general or popular history of witchcraft. The book is aimed at readers interested in early modern legal history, the Spanish Inquisition and its courts, and the dynamics of child testimony in historical witch trials.
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“This volume offers a compelling, albeit dense, examination of 17th-century Navarre’s legal depositions. Homza’s work is rigorous and insightful for historians analyzing the social fabric of early modern Iberia. However, it does…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on The Child Witches of Olague Homza, Lu Ann
“Homza’s meticulous translation of court cases offers valuable primary source access, yet it demands patience from casual readers. The text is dense with legal procedural details and historical context that may overwhelm those…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on The Child Witches of Olague Homza, Lu Ann
