NameTeresa de Castro
Birth1467, Villa de Almagro, Ciudad Real
Misc. Notes
Elvira Gutiérrez, in 1467, "que la setena nocha venieron donzellas e otros parientes a le facer la fadas como acostumbre los judios..."31 ("that on the seventh night young women and other relatives came to make the divinations[?] as is the custom of Jews"). Particular songs were sung and the child was given a cermonial bath. Elvira Gutiérrez died at about age seven to eight months of age and witnesses testified that her body was bathed and prepared for burial in the manner of Jewish custom.32
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