During the Middle Ages, before the trades, municipal governments and universities institutionalization, women started to be part of all domains; other than being peasants, they were trade teachers, settlers, abbesses, writers, and they also devoted their lives to human knowledge fields, such as those referred to science mainly focused on medicine fields. Women went further from the established limits for them within the domination gender roles and became a problem for the feudal and patriarchal masculine elite.

In response, a misogyny opinion trend among privileged men such as priest and erudite people started taking shape during the XIII and XIV centuries. Between the 18th February and the 29th April 1592, twenty-four women from the Consel de Laspauls were charged with witchcraft and were executed on the gallows, according to the manuscripts found by the parish priest Domingo Subías in 1980 in Laspaúles church bell tower.

The execution was carried out during troubled times when the Aragón Justicia (an ancient justice institution), Juan de Lanuza, was beheaded by order of the king Felipe II in 1591. In revenge for this execution and coinciding with Laspaúles witch-hunt, in February 1592, a failed invasion attempt was perpetrated in Aragón through Tena Valley. That riot was headed by the former secretary of the king, Antonio Pérez, followed by a numerous group of expeditionary French people and was put out by the king’s army. These two historical brush-strokes that coincided with the execution of the 24 women in Laspaúles let us draw a hectic atmosphere that had to be necessarily crucial in a vast part of Aragón territory.

Since the discovery of such sorrowful events, Laspaúles municipality has devoted part of its efforts to pay tribute to those twenty-four women through different initiatives.