ABSTRACT
This chapter continues the parallels and influences of Islamic magical practices on the Christian Castilian intellectual sphere by focusing on María de Zayas y Sotomayor’s fictional representation of a supposedly Moorish slave and a Moorish necromancer roughly 30 years after the expulsion of Moriscos for the most part, crypto-Muslim new Christian converts from the Peninsula. Zayas’s focus was on highlighting the injustices suffered by women following the successful structure of frametales. Through the employment of the Moorish necromancer, don Diego exercises some kind of containment or level of control over Islamic knowledge. Despite expulsion prior to the publication of either set of Zayas’s novella collections, she capitalized on the continued dual fascination and fear of the Arab and Islamic world by Christian Iberians.
