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References
- ↑ Idoate: Un documento de la Inquisición sobre la brujería en Navarra, Pamplona, 1972
- ↑ Gustav Henningsen: The Salazar Documents: Inquisitor Alonso de Salazar Frías and Others on the p. 138
- ↑ Burns, William E., Witch hunts in Europe and America: an encyclopedia, Greenwood, Westport, Conn., 2003