1722. Carta de frei António das Chagas para António Ribeiro de Abreu, Inquisidor de Coimbra.

Request letter from a priest, friar António das Chagas, to an Inquisitor of Coimbra, António Ribeiro de Abreu.

The author asks the addressee to advise him on a matter regarding a woman possessed with the devil that went to confess to him. He fears he has done wrong by helping her to abjure and, in the process, to have touched her body in order to remove hair from her breasts and her left armpit.

A servant in the place of Felgueiras, in Northern Portugal, was accused of making a pact with the Devil. The witnesses who testified against her believed that she appeared to them in the company of a well dressed young man (the Devil in disguise). Later, they would forget all about it and only remember through the Catholic confession and communion. They believed to have been enchanted, made invisible and forgetful while they would have illicit sexual intercourse with other people.