The Witches of Fuenterrabía. The town of Fuenterrabía was involved in a famous witchcraft trial in 1611. Under the accusation of practicing witchcraft, made by children, several alleged witches were arrested. The accused were María de Garro, Inesa de Gaxen, María de Illarra, and María de Echagaray. Their property was confiscated, and the inquisitor Salazar was informed.
Forty-one people were testified during these events, contemporaneous with those culminating in 1610 with the Auto-da-Fé of Logroño. Only one confessed to knowing of the existence of an akelarre in the area. All the accused women eventually d themselves witches, except for the indomitable Inesa de Gaxen, who, despite all pressures and mistreatment, denied it until the end.
A few months later, the Inquisition pardoned them all and returned their property, although exile remained pending. The theater group "Intxixu" from Oyarzun, directed by Eugenio Arocena, staged in spring-summer 1980 the play Inexa, based on these events but shaping the action and script toward a feminist interpretation of the repression of such heterodoxy in the Basque Country.