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Cervantes es uno de los autores que más prolíficamente ha introducido a hechiceras y brujas en su obra. Por ello, resulta urgente atender a este insigne escritor para trazar una panorámica de la literatura hechiceresco-brujeril española de los Siglos de Oro. Don Miguel deja pulular por las páginas de sus textos a hechiceras clásicas, celestinescas, étnicas, y, por supuesto, brujas. Se deja fascinar una y otra vez por las mujeres sobrenaturales, tanto que se convierte en uno de los principales potenciadores del tratamiento literario de las mismas. Creyendo ser burlador de sus mágicas criaturas, termina siendo un artista fascinado por aquellos mismos personajes que criticaba, que, además, encanta a los lectores; y que, sin darse apenas cuenta, es el primero en presentar, en una obra de ficción, a una bruja de carne y hueso con voz propia, la Cañizares. Cervantes is one of the authors who has introduced sorceresses and witches most abundantly in his work. For this reason, it is urgent to pay attention to this distinguished writer to trace a general view of the Spanish literature devoted to witches and sorceresses in the Golden Age. Don Miguel allows sorceresses from other lands, those who behave as procuresses, classical ones and, of course, witches to swarm in the pages of his texts. He lets himself feel fascinated, once and again, by supernatural women to the extent of becoming one of the main promoters of their literary treatment. Though he believes he is a scoffer of his magic creatures, he ends up by becoming an artist fascinated by those same characters he criticised; who, besides, fascinates his readers; and who, even scarcely perceiving it, is the first one in showing, within fiction, a human witch with her own voice, Cañizares. |