Moor, Jew, Heretic, Witch: The Spanish Inquisition in Granada

At the entrance to Soportújar, a village in the Alpujarra mountains south of Granada, lies a cave in which lived – so the legend tells – two sister witches. At the back of the cave the red-black rock twists like a solidified tornado up into the mountain, a snapshot of geological processes that took place a million years ago as the Sierra Nevada was forming, but which looked, to early modern…