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Note to the preceding Legend.
El licenciado Ardevines (Lib. 2. c. 8.) dize
que dichos Duendos caseros, o los del aire, hazen
aparacer exercitos y peleas, como lo que se
cuenta por tradicion (y aun algunos personas lo
deponen como testigos de vista) de la torre y
castello de Marcuello, lugar al pie de las montanas
de Aragon (aora inhabitable, por las
grandes y espantables ruidos, que en el se oyen)
donde se retraxo el Conde Don Julian, causa de
la perdicion de Espana; sobre el qual castillo,
deze se ven en el aire ciertas visiones, como de
soldados, que el vulgo dize son los cavalleros y
gente que le favorecian.
Vide “el Ente Dislucidado, por Fray Antonio
de Fuentalapena capuchin. Seccion 3. Subseccion
5. Instancia 8. Num. 644.
As readers unversed in the Spanish language
may wish to know the testimony of the worthy
and discreet capuchin friar, Antonio de Fuentalapena,
we subjoin a translation of it.
“The licentiate Ardevines, (Book II, chap.
8.) says, that the said house fairies, (or familiar
spirits,) or those of the air, cause the apparitions
of armies and battles; such as those which are
related in tradition, (and some persons even depose
to the truth of them as eye-witnesses) of the
town and castle of Marcuello, a fortress at the
foot of the mountains of Arragon, (at present
uninhabitable, on account of the great and
frightful noises heard in it) the place of retreat
of Count Don Julian, the cause of the perdition
of Spain. It is said that certain apparitions
of soldiers are seen in the air, which the
vulgar say are those of the courtiers and people
who aided him”
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