Note 211 — LEYENDAS DEL PAÍS DE LA SELVA C. O. Bunge (Según Ricardo Rojas)

Salamanca. The University of Salamanca was famous in the Middle Ages as a great center of learning. Its motto was Salamanca, maestra de todas las ciencias. In the thirteenth century Pope Alexander IV, by a bull, made it one of the four great academies of the world. In Argentina, the word Salamanca has become synonymous with learning used for evil purposes, and means both witchcraft and the school where witchcraft is taught.