Many tiny inquisitors. About the book “Spanish Inquisition” by Henry Kamen

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“To cast suspicion” – the fluidity of this word well reflects the case of the inquisition processes. With so hard to grasp the content of another people's minds, a wide field to show for the delator, the envious, and the insidious opened. It was adequate to have a neighbour who possessed any desirable goods to study to him that he secretly committed himself to witchcraft or accepted heretics. As always in history, the pursuit of political power to clean the views of its subjects led to many abuses by those subjects.

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