Not everything in these files is fear. Sometimes, between one statement and the next, a window opens onto neighborhood life.
Saint Eligius is the patron saint of silversmiths, and silverwork was the trade, and the street, of many families from Palma's old Jewish quarter. In June 1687 the silversmiths held their feast the way it was done then: by running bulls down their own street.
Francisca Forteza, wife of Baltasar Joaquín Martí, known as «the Heir», remembered being invited to watch. Onofre Cortés de Agustín crossed paths with her and came back two or three times to press her to do him the favor of coming.
What anywhere else would be a happy memory ended up in a heresy trial. Onofre Cortés de Agustín was one of the great informers of those years, and every encounter, every visit, every conversation in the street could later become a charge.
At the second auto-da-fé, on 1 May 1691, the chronicler Garau mentions a Francisca Forteza who, as she had promised, said «Jesus» at the last turn of the garrote. Everything suggests she is the same woman.
