There was at one time a student of Salamanca, Don Vicente by name, of that merry but mendicant class, who set out on the road to learning without a penny in pouch for the journey, and who, during college vacations, beg from town to town and village to village to raise funds to enable them to pursue their studies through the ensuing term. Esta creencia parece confirmada en cierto modo por las circunstancias de la siguiente historia. Hace mucho que esta cerrada la cueva y hasta olvidado el verdadero sitio en que se encuentra, aunque, según la tradición, la entrada de la misma andaba cerca de donde se alzaba la cruz de piedra que hay en la plazoleta del seminario de Carvajal. TODO el mundo ha oído hablar de la cueva de San Cipriano en Salamanca, donde antaño, un viejo sacristán, o como creían muchos, el mismísimo diablo en persona disfrazado de esta guisa, enseñaba ocultamente la astrología judiciaria, la nigromancia, la quiromancia y otras negras y abominables artes. The cave has long been shut up and the very site of it forgotten, though, according to tradition, the entrance was somewhere about where the stone cross stands in the small square of the seminary of Carvajal and this tradition appears in some degree corroborated by the circumstances of the following story. Cyprian at Salamanca, where in old times judicial astronomy, necromancy, chiromancy, and other dark and damnable arts were secretly taught by an ancient sacristan or, as some will have it, by the devil himself, in that disguise.
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