ENRIQUE DE VILLENA. 491 tempest with a copper vessel ; he divined the future with the stone chelonites ; he gave his shadow to the devil in the cave of San Cebrian. 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, Roger 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 (Fernan Perez de Guzman). — Monteiro, Hist, da Santa Inquisicao, P. i. Lib. ii. c. 40. — Paramo, p. 131. — La Fuente, Hist. Gen. de Espana, IX. GO. — Pelayo, Heterodoxos Espaiioles I. 582, 608-11. — Amador de los Rios, Revista de Espana, T. XVIII. pp. 15-16.
