The witches transformed themselves into ravens or snakes, and they liked to suck the milk of the cattle and the nursemaids of Les Planes. But there was also a woman in the village who was an expert at discovering them and making them vanish using a stick as she prayed.

Among the sorcerers, the most remembered case is that of Pere Torrent, alias Cufí, who in 1619 was accused of witchcraft: a real case documented by the Inquisition. This man lived in Les Encies and it is said that he sold his soul to the devil because of a toothache. Under torture he confessed to having relations with witches and demons, and although his brother begged for him to be forgiven for being a ‘sick person of little sanity’, in November of the same year he was hanged by the Holy Inquisition.

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