In the year 1255 it was the only town in the area that did not belong to the monastery of Veruela, therefore, he could not get hold of his taxes or his wealth, and for that reason his rivalry began. Since they did not agree, the enemies of the place took advantage of any rumor to say that it was a town of witches, they accused the healers of the area of making spells with herbs and animals and they used any excuse they gave to justify that they were doing magic. black.
With the passage of time, the abbot of Veruela asked the archbishop of Tarazona to excommunicate the entire town, but it did not have much effect on the daily life of its inhabitants and over the years it fell into oblivion. It was already in 1511 when the Abbot of the Monastery of that time, with the permission of Julius II, put a curse on the lord of TrazmozPedro Manuel Ximenez de Urrea, and therefore the people.
But what happens to live in an excommunicated and cursed town?
At that time the inhabitants of the town it was said that they could not go to heaven, that they had the entrance completely closed and that supernatural things also happened there. The truth is that today this does not affect them at all, in practice the lives of its inhabitants are normal, they have a church, they get married, there are masses, but that curse, which only a pope can lift, has allowed the magic continues in the town, each year they choose a witch, taking into account the involvement of that person by the town, and they also celebrate the festival of witchcraft on July 1st.
“Trasmoz is the site to which Bécquer has dedicated the most lines”
The Sevillian poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer went to Trasmoz with his brother with the intention of being cured of tuberculosis, and once there he was enchanted by the mysterious halo of the town, wrote in the Monastery of Veruela “Letters from my cell” in which he recounts the death of Aunt Casca, the last witch of Trasmoz. That is why the town is full of murals that depict the face of the poet, as well as his writings.
Source: Lasexta
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