The Warlock's Pact of Rueda de Jalón
📍 Rueda de Jalón, Zaragoza
The Warlock's Pact of Rueda de Jalón The tower overlooks Rueda de Jalón from a hilltop that locals still call "la Cumbre del Brujo"—the Warlock's Summit. In 1342, during the Black Death's first sweep through Aragón, the village should have been annihilated. The plague killed indiscriminately—young and old, rich and poor, pious and profane. Entire villages vanished, their streets empty, their fields untended, their churches silent. Rueda de Jalón lost no one. The explanation, according to village records carefully hidden from Church authorities, was simple: their warlock made a pact. His name was Gaspar, and he'd lived in the tower for twelve years, providing minor services—healing herbs, weather predictions, finding lost livestock. When the plague approached, he gathered the village counc…