He spent a year in Bali, where he saw witches dance and caught typhoid fever.
It is here that witches dance on Walpurgis Night, and where Mephistopheles led Faustus.
The witches were dancing on the walls, the ceiling, occasionally the floor, and in mid-air, with a fine disregard for gravity.
We climb through pine forests, passing an outcrop where witches once danced on the summer solstice, and the promised joie de vivre arrives in the shape of food.
In nearby Macizo de Anaga one finds the zone of "El Bailadero", so named because, according to the old legends, it was the place where witches danced around bonfires and practiced witchcraft.
He wants to know a forth thing but suddenly the witches dance crazily and then run away.
According to local legends, the Buskam is the site where witches dance during Walpurgis Night, mermaids are also supposed to dance often on the rock.
That they were really witches and went out on moonlit nights and danced in the snow.
The books said that the old-time witches had sometimes danced in their shifts.
That was what he was, a child of olden days when witches had danced beneath the moon and knights had battled dragons.