Las meigas: La transformación de un estigma en recurso patrimonial

Abstract

This article reflects on the heritage formation processes of Galician witches considering their marginalization and exclusion in the past and its current transformation and reinterpretation as a social resource. To address this process of change it must be taken into account different contextual factors related to socioeconomic changes and the tourism market. But, beyond its economic purpose, heritage is a resource that can produce social changes through the recovery of witches' history; the history of women who were stigmatized from a misogynist and exclusive point of view.