Category: Spain

Antonio de Torquemada is thought to have been born around 1507, so if he was ten years old, it would have been about 1517. LVD. Many such things as these, without doubt, do happen in

 Ignorance, and its inseparable attendant, Superstition, appear to pursue their march through Spain; and the impediments constantly thrown in the way of the development of light and instruction, have the effect of giving a deeper

A polite Spanish ghost. Talks down the chimney. From our own correspondent. Madrid, Nov. 23. A friendly ghost which speaks down the chimney of an economical cooker is a phenomenon sufficiently rare to cause some

 The Haunted Spanish Mill. Ghosts are in possession of an oil mill at Arcos de la Frontera, near Dierra de Ronda [Serrania de Ronda?], in Andalusia, famed in the old days for “bandoleros,” who, even