1722. Carta de Joana da Madre de Deus, para o seu padrinho.

Letter from Joana da Madre de Deus, a nun, to her godfather.

The author describes some witchcraft experiments made by the nuns in a convent.

The Inquisition archives contain, apart from the around 40 thousand individual proceedings ("processos"), a collection of scattered charges, for which the Inquisition "Promotor" had to decide whether or not to prosecute. Complaints, confessions, letters by the commissioners or about different stages of each proceedings are some of the document types that can be found in these books. This letter has been kept among such documentation.