ESP 1101 Lecture Notes - Alguacil, Marrano, Solitary Confinement

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From the moment you were suspected, you were placed in solitary confinement and told to write a confession, for what you did not. Accused of anything from laughing in a church, to peeing on an outside church wall, 15 year old girl who was whipped until she denounced her mother. At first they were to look for the crypto jews (secret jews, then they started looking for heretics, then the jews themselves and then they were expelled. Could be accused for not eating pork, changing linen on friday or cooking all the weekends meals on a friday. Once you were accused your life was over, they took all your property, you were placed in prison, you were tortured, etc. Many accusations were false or not at all based on reality (ex: little boy crucified as a blood libel, except no missing boy), accusations were sometimes made out of revenge.

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