Note 76 — Chapter V · “The Devil and all His Works”
Reading edition
The best example of enchantment in Castillian prior to Alfonso is Berceo’s Miraglos de Nuestra Señora, XXIV, Biblioteca de Autores Españoles, Vol. 57. Madrid, 1883. In El Libro de Alejandro are to be found enchanted fountains, 1331 ff., enchanted armor, 615 ff., enchanted persons, 678 ff., and the magic knot no one can untie, 787 ff. See Samuel M. Waxman, Chapters in Spanish Magic, New York, 1916, for a study of this subject in the period immediately following Alfonso.