1704. Carta de Manuel Pereira para Manuel da Gama Lobo, deputado.

Denunciation letter from Manuel Pereira to his uncle, a deputy of the Holy Office.

The author shares his suspicions about a man, Belchior Aranha, who had already been convicted for witchcraft. He was apparently practicing his 'arts' again.

The pharmacist Belchior Aranha, living in the region of Lamego, was accused by a priest of practicing witchcraft to cure the accuser's gout. He was convicted and sent to exile in Faro for two years.