--- title: Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/ description: 'Book page with a copperplate engraving and a French verse: Spanish soldiers burn a thatched house full of people and throw a child into the flames, while…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620.jpg) # Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole) Book page with a copperplate engraving and a French verse: Spanish soldiers burn a thatched house full of people and throw a child into the flames, while the crowned Taino leader Anacaona hangs from a tree and riders drive off fleeing villagers. The tells: the verse frames the act as the Spaniard's character ('the tyrant man cares not to keep his faith') and the page head reads 'De la Tyrannie aux Indes', a label that ties the New World scene to the book's title tyranny. - **Date:** 1620 - **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914) - **Made by:** Dutch publisher of the 1620 French edition (imprint not shown on this page); engraving after the 1598 Las Casas illustrations - **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe) - **Country:** [Dutch Republic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=dutch-republic) - **Medium:** [Print](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=print) - **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed) - **Regime:** [Stadtholderate of Maurice of Nassau](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=stadtholderate-of-maurice-of-nassau) - **Leader:** [Maurice of Nassau](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=maurice-of-nassau) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize) - **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism) - **Event:** [Eighty Years War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=eighty-years-war) - **Techniques:** [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Internet Archive (scan of the World Digital Library copy), item LeMiroir](https://archive.org/details/LeMiroir/page/n205/mode/2up), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (printed 1620); Internet Archive marks the scan Public Domain Mark; Commons cites CC0 Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole (1620), World Digital Library item 515, scan on the Internet Archive (LeMiroir), page 8 of the Las Casas section. ## Text on the object Original (French) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` De la Tyrannie aux Indes. 8 L'Appetit du l'argent, par ces peuples diverses Fit les changer la foy, & devenir perverses. L'Espagnol assembla, le peuple par tout doux, Et le brusla bien tost, desloyal en corroux: Car oncques le Renard ne change sa nature, Et de garder sa foy l'homme Tyran n'a cure. Anacoana fut pendue sans raison, Et ruiné par tout la ville & sa maison. ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Of the Tyranny in the Indies. 8 The appetite for money, among these various peoples, Made them change their faith and become perverse. The Spaniard gathered the people, all gentle, And soon burned it, disloyal in wrath: For the Fox never changes his nature, And the tyrant man cares not to keep his faith. Anacoana was hanged without cause, And the town and her house ruined throughout. ``` Early seventeenth-century spelling kept as printed; the long s is rendered as s. The running head 'De la Tyrannie aux Indes' and the page number 8 are at the top of the leaf. Faint text bleeding through from the other side of the leaf, and the partial neighbouring page at the left edge, are not transcribed. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. [← Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) ## Using the same techniques - [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [豬叫取胎圖 (Picture of the Pig Sect Extracting a Foetus), from Reverently Obeying the Sacred Edict: A Complete Picture Gallery to Repel Heterodoxy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pig-cry-taking-foetus-hunan-1891/) (1891 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Colour woodblock caricature depicting foreign Christians as members of a 'pig' sect and showing them cutting a foetus from a woman; violence against a woman and derision of Christianity. - [The Radical Programme, No. 4: Dismemberment of the Empire (Gladstone & Co. auction India), St Stephen's Review Presentation Cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/radical-programme-selling-india-st-stephens-review-1891/) (Oct 31, 1891 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating) - [En posesión de su presa (In Possession of Its Prey)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/en-posesion-de-su-presa-el-diablo-1894/) (Jun 2, 1894 · Fear appeal) - [劉永福懸賞抓拿日本奸細告示 (Liu Yongfu's notice offering rewards for capturing Japanese spies), Taiwan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/liu-yongfu-reward-notice-japanese-spies-1895/) (1895 · Name-calling, Fear appeal) - [Sífilis: Curación absoluta y radical en el Sanatorio para sifilíticos (Syphilis: Absolute and Radical Cure at the Sanatorium for Syphilitics)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sifilis-sanatorio-abreu-1900/) (1900 · Fear appeal) - [時局圖 (The Situation in the Far East / Map of the Present Situation), newer version with English labels](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/situation-in-far-east-tse-tsan-tai-1900/) (1900 · Fear appeal)