This chapter presents a close reading of two witchcraft trials, one against the Spanish midwife Isabel de Morales in 1537, and the second against two women in Mexico City in 1566, doña María de Anuncibay and María de Lugo. The chapter analyzes peculiarities of these cases. Morales was a low-status Spanish woman who worked as a midwife in Mexico City. The Inquisition focused on multiple suspicious behaviors. She cured the evil eye; made suspicious incantations that nobody understood; and worked as a kind of gynecologist and performed surgeries (possibly on vaginas or uteruses) with a black-handled knife. She was a hybrid tiçitl-curandera. Her curing of the evil eye caught attention because such cures were considered superstitious. Midwives were always at risk from claims that they caused the evil eye or death of infants. The other case concerned a wealthy Basque woman, Anuncibay, and a lower-status Andalucian, who was an illegitimate daughter of the adelantado of the Canaries. These women were accused of keeping a familiar (spirit) in a glass jar and of getting tattoos on their legs – of some demon or possibly of a Mesoamerican god-like Quetzalcoatl.

In this chapter, the author compares female serial killers (FSKs) and male serial killers (MSKs) and describes crime location differences as well as victim differences. Most MSKs targeted at least one stranger, whereas only a small percentage of FSKs did. In contrast, most FSKs killed someone they knew or were related to, whereas less than half of MSKs killed someone they knew, and only a few killed someone to whom they were related by blood or marriage. MSKs were 18 times more likely to stalk victims. FSKs most frequently killed males and females, but MSKs most frequently killed females. Serial killers did not commonly target only their same gender. FSKs’ most frequent method of killing was poisoning, whereas MSKs’ most frequent method was asphyxiation. There were some murder method commonalities. The author discusses her general observations of FSKs vs. MSKs and provides preliminary new data comparing serial killer taking of crime trophies. The cases of MSKs Robert Yates and Jerome Brudos illustrate stark differences in MSK crimes compared to FSK crimes and illustrate psychological concepts.

This unit presents the use of direct object pronouns, in combination with the affirmative familiar imperative and with personal ’a’. Students learn to express preferences when giving or following instructions and when eating out or ordering food. They are also introduced to expressions with the verb tener to indicate states of body and mind. Alternative structures to the passive are described and practised. Finally, Spanish expressions of duration and continuity in time are contrasted with their English equivalents.

This unit presents the use of direct object pronouns, in combination with the affirmative familiar imperative and with personal ’a’. Students learn to express preferences when giving or following instructions and when eating out or ordering food. They are also introduced to expressions with the verb tener to indicate states of body and mind. Alternative structures to the passive are described and practised. Finally, Spanish expressions of duration and continuity in time are contrasted with their English equivalents.

This chapter drills into the parish records of Little and Great Clacton to reveal new information about the Selles family, accused of witchcraft as tensions around child-rearing and illegitimacy reached a peak in a second village. It shows how parish records are vital to an understanding of the life circumstances of ordinary villagers and how much a name, a relatuonship or a life event can tell us about the processes of witch accusation.

This chapter ranges over the St Osyth lndscape, mapping its haunted spots and the location of key encounters with familiar spirits, particularly those said to belong to Elizabeth Bennet, Margerie Sammon, Ales Hunt and Joan Pechey. It introduces further key figures from the wider Darcy estate and shows how more suspects were drawn into the witch hunt. It argues that the history and features of a landscape can tell us much about the origin of local witchcraft fears.