ABSTRACT
This chapter follows its predecessor closely in that once again our core literary example portrays a prominent magical character who is a skillful old mediating woman of many talents. Fernando de Rojas represents Celestina, a highly skilled elder woman performing what appears to be a philocaptio love spell to arrange an amorous entanglement. The reason for including Rojas’s text as an archetypal example of multi-cultural magical representation in Iberian texts is Rojas’s identity. Celestina is praised for its play with competing worlds of higher nobility and lower common class, focusing on sex rather than idealized love and a continued fixation on monetary gains. Both Celestina and Trotaconventos dealt with “hombres y mujeres casados y solteros” to achieve their match-making.
