Brewer's: Torralba

(Doctor), who resided some time in the court of Charles V. of Spain. He was tried by the Inquisition for sorcery, and confessed that the spirit Cequiel took him from Valladolid to Rome and back again in an hour and a half. (Pelicer.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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