The regional Catalan government in northeast Spain is pardoning one thousand people condemned for witchcraft 400 years ago. The majority of them were women – blamed for things like crop failures and diseases. As The World’s Lucía Benavides reports, this is just one part of a larger campaign to incorporate the history of witch-hunts in public schools and demystify the image of witches.
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