A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages V.3
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Every feat of magic was attributed to him ; he became the inexhaustible theme of playwright and story-teller, and to the present day he is the favorite magician of the Spanish stage. From this example it is easy to trace the evolution of the myths of Michael Scot, Eoger Bacon, Albertus Magnus, Pietro d' Abano, Dr. Faustus, and other popular necromantic heroes.'^ * La Puente Epit. de la Chronica del Rey don Juan II. Lib. in. c. 23 ; Lib. v. c. 27 (Fernau Perez de Guzman). — Monteiro, Hist, da Sa...nta Inquisi9ao, P. i. Lib. II. c. 40. — Paramo, p. 131. — La Fuente, Hist. Gen. de Espana, IX. 60.— Pelayo, Heterodoxos Espanoles I. 582, 608-11. — Amador de los Rios, Revista de Espana, T. XVIII. pp. 15-16. CHAPTEE YII. WITCHCRAFT. "While, as we have seen, princes and warriors were toying with the dangerous mysteries of the occult sciences, influencing the (destinies of states, there had been for half a century a gradually increasing development of sorcery in a different direction among the despised peasantry, which, before it ran its course, worked far greater evils than any which had thus far sprung from the same source, and left an ineffaceable stain upon the civilization and intel- ligence of Europe.
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