Putas, brujas y locas

Whores, witches and crazy women is the nickname with which official history has described women who defied conventions in the Modern Age, a time of prodigies and deep crisis with so little chance of survival that to get ahead it was necessary to exploit creativity to the maximum and make the picaresque way of life. Admiral Isabel Barreto led the expedition to the Solomon Islands with an iron hand and the help of the gallows against all those who dared to oppose her; the Moorish slave Elena de Céspedes was the first female surgeon, as well as a soldier, but also the first to marry another woman; a prophetess named Lucrecia de León made the reign of the Habsburgs shake, putting Philip II against the ropes of his predictions, more precise and controversial than those of any Nostradamus; The advanced Mencía de Calderón crossed the seas and crossed 1,600 kilometers of jungle with a caravan of marriageable women for six long years full of incidents and adventures, until she reached her destination in the lands of the New World. These and other women such as the prostitutes of the Valencia brothel, the wolf enchanter Ana María la lobera, the nun lieutenant Catalina de Erauso, the Chilean conqueror Inés Suárez, the Malinche Indian who opened the doors of Mexico to Hernán Cortes, the monster of Avilés or the witches of Zugarramurdi, parade along these pages narrated in a marvelous key.