Scot in Legend
The legendary Michael Scot used to feast his friends with dishes brought by spirits from the royal kitchens of France and Spain and other lands.
He is said to have turned to stone a coven of witches, which have become the stone circle of Long Meg and Her Daughters.
But Michael Scot's reputation as a magician had already become fixed in the age immediately following his own. He appears in Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno, canto xx.115-117) in the fourth bolgia located in the Eighth Circle of Hell that's reserved for sorcerers, astrologers, and false prophets who claimed they can see the future when they could not.
Boccaccio represents him in the same character, and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola arraigns him severely in his work against astrology, while Gabriel Naudé finds it necessary to defend his good name in his Apologie pour tous les grands personages faussement soupçonnez de magie.
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