By Genie Milgrom
Partial list of Crimes of those judged in the Spanish Inquisition
Lista Parcial de los crimenes de la Inquisicion
Being Anglicans
Bestiality
Bigamy
Blasphemy
Defacing a Church or Cemetery
False Conversions
Fornication
Freemasonry
Hechicera ( Witchcraft)
Heresy
Incest
Judaism
Lutherans
Morisco (Moor)
Offenses against the Holy Office of the Inquisition
Pedophilia
Protestants
Sodomy
Solicitations
Sorcery
Superstition
Unnatural Marriage (Between two people who could not bear (children)
Witchcraft
You were arrested for the following
Believing in the law of Moses
Guarding the Sabbath
Wearing a clean shirt on Shabbat
Wearing better clothing on Holidays
Fresh tablecloths on Friday Nights
Changing the sheets on Fridays
Not having light on the Sabbath in the home
Soaking or Salting Meat
Taking the Nerve out of the cow or other animal
Killing animals in a specific way
Saying certain special words
Making sure knives were sharp with the tip of the finger
Covering blood with dirt
Eating meat during Lent
Eating Meat on other Catholic Holidays where no meat is eaten
Believing they could eat meat and it was not a sin
Fasting on the large fast where Jews ask for forgiveness
Being barefoot on the Day of the Big Fast” Yom Kippur”
If they went around asking others to forgive them for transgressions
Putting hands on your children’s head and moving your lips
If you fasted on the Feast of Saint Esther
If you fasted on the Holiday of the Ninth of Av when the Jews lost their Holy House
Fasting until the first star on other days before the Fast of Av
Not eating meat for nine days before and bathing before the fast
Burning Nails and Hair after cutting
Praying Jewish Prayer Raising and lowering your head
Praying facing a wall ans washing your hands with water or dirt before
Wearing open necked garments with strings and knots
Celebrating the Holiday of special bread that begins with eating lettuce,celery or another greenery
Shaking bouquets of greenery
Honoring the holiday of candles and light lighting one by one each day
Only drinking wine made at home
Faking to be playing cards at the table. Barrajas
Taking the wine glass in the center of your hand, saying a few words and everyone at the table drinking from the same glass
Only eating meat killed by Jews
Saying the psalms of David without starting each one with the Latin words Gloria Patri
If they were waiting for the Messiah
Or saying a Messiah has yet to come
If a woman would wait 40 Days after birth before entering a house of worship
If a child was circumcised on the 7th night of birth
Bathing a Child right after Baptism
Putting a newborn in a basin and throwing in gold,Silver and other finery
Marrying in a Jewish way
Taking a bit of dough from the Challah and burning it
Turning a person who is going to die towards a wall
Washing and dressing a corpse with oils and linen
Putting the head on a pillow with virgin soil
Eating on the floor
Sitting on the Floor
Eating fish and olive and no meat when a relative dies
Burying only in Virgin Soil
Obtained from Cincuenta A~os de Inquisicion en el Tribunal de Cartagena de Indias 1610-1660 CEJA Anna Maria Splendiani
There are many many more depending on the country. For example in Mexico, there are many crimes such as hitting a Christ statue, Wearing the image of Christ on the bottom of your shoe, Smashing an image and many more.