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Scot's reputation as a [[magician]] had already become fixed in the age immediately following his own. The legendary Michael Scot was said to feast his friends with dishes brought by spirits from the royal kitchens of France and Spain and other lands. He is said to have turned to stone a coven of [[witch]]es, which have become the stone circle of Long Meg and Her Daughters. | Scot's reputation as a [[magician]] had already become fixed in the age immediately following his own. The legendary Michael Scot was said to feast his friends with dishes brought by spirits from the royal kitchens of France and Spain and other lands. He is said to have turned to stone a coven of [[witch]]es, which have become the stone circle of Long Meg and Her Daughters. | ||
He appears in Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', the only Scot to do so, in the fourth bolgia located in the Eighth Circle of Hell, reserved for sorcerers, astrologers, and false [[prophet]]s who claimed they could see the future when they, in fact, could not. | He appears in [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]'s ''Divine Comedy'', the only Scot to do so, in the fourth bolgia located in the Eighth Circle of Hell, reserved for sorcerers, astrologers, and false [[prophet]]s who claimed they could see the future when they, in fact, could not. | ||
In John Leyden's ballad ''Lord Soulis'', Michael Scot is credited with teaching [[ritual magic|magic]] to the protagonist, the evil sorcerer [[William II de Soules]], who ends up being boiled alive. | In John Leyden's ballad ''Lord Soulis'', Michael Scot is credited with teaching [[ritual magic|magic]] to the protagonist, the evil sorcerer [[William II de Soules]], who ends up being boiled alive. | ||