In the mid-sixteenth century, a thin man of harmless appearance left in his wake a trail of terror and desolation in the lands of the Ebro. Joan Malet, the first witch hunter in the history of Catalonia, went from village to village with the macabre...

In the mid-sixteenth century, a thin man of harmless appearance left in his wake a trail of terror and desolation in the lands of the Ebro. Joan Malet, the first witch hunter in the history of Catalonia, went from village to village with the macabre task of identifying the witches and warlocks who, according to the superstitious mentalities of the time, caused the death of crops, beasts and people.