Sixteenth-century priest Pedro Ruiz Calder'on has been in the hearsay very soon at the same time as a new account of his trial has been published. Calder'on, tried in Mexico Metropolis in 1540, claimed to limit the full climb over of magical powers:
The priest actually bragged about the powers he had acquired according to archives a studious is working on publishing. He claimed to be pungent to teleport amongst continents, make himself camouflaged, make women fall in love with him, denote the higher, turn metals taking part in gold, summon and banish demons and, utmost deeply, warn undeveloped prize. Zip marvelous there; basically dissimilar fake. This is the part that stumped my eye:
According to the trial archives, Calder'on claimed that he went to hell itself to harvest some of his abilities. At one see, the archives say he was in Naples, working for a viceroy.... He and three men went to rummage around a pit. He meant it was 3,000 leagues below the coating of the Hole.... In all probability, the men got trapped communicate, with utmost of Calder'on's companions dying. Calder'on did not return empty-handed: "He brought back books from hell. He meant one of them had the name of the devil, the prince of impenetrability."This is astute what shamans do: be in first place to the land of the dead to bring back knowledge and power, making this encompass yet dissimilar one of the dispersed memoirs of shamanism in the European Restoration.