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During the previous year (1609) French judge Pierre de Lancre initiated a massive process in Labourd, focusing mainly on Basque women and priests. He was eventually displaced from his role, but only after he caused many deaths. The witch panic extended beyond the frontier and accusations of witchcraft proliferated among the local population until the Spanish Inquisition intervened. The 1610 Logroño process ended with 12 people burnt at the stake (five of them symbolically, as they had died under

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