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Antonio Cruz Casado
Cervantes' fondness for the subject of sorcery is manifest not only in the well known Coloquio de los perros but also in many other areas of his work, among which Persiles y Sigismunda particularly stands out. In the concluding chapters of that novel the heroine is bewitched by means of a malignant spell cast by a Jewess who resides in Rome. The episode is a sort of tour de force which culminates a series of difficulties the lovers Periandro and Auristela have had to undergo. We shall point out an interesting parallel with a similar situation in La española inglesa, as well as some classical antecedents from the Greek narrative of adventures.
