Join Inquisition expert Professor James Wadsworth of Stonehill College at the Library on Thursday March 5th at 6:00 in the Program Room for a special presentation on the Inquisition. In the late 1730s, Catholic missionaries serving in Paraiba (Brazil) began to take notice of a “new invention” of “diabolical witchcraft” among indigenous villages in that region using psychoactive plants. The colonial government ordered missionaries to examine all of the villagers under their jurisdiction who participated, reprimand them severely, and inform the Inquisition so they could stamp out the movement. They failed, and the movement persisted into the modern era, demonstrating the resilience of indigenous people when faced with overwhelming odds as they forge their own identities.