Avoir le diable comme professeur La pratique de la magie noire au prisme du Roman de Buscalus

Through the narration of the way a devil teaches magic to a young nobleman in a cave in Toledo, the Roman de Buscalus picks up on a topos whose origins go back to the school of translators in Toledo and to the legend of Hercules’ cave. The path of the character who has been initiated into the ways of magic leads to a horrible death that was no doubt intended as a warning to readers. The anonymous author, a man from the fifteenth century, highly disapproved of the practice of black magic.