[26] The Castilian tongue is rich in words descriptive of grace in women. Spain is, certainly, the country where that quality is most common. I will cite only a few of those expressions, indicative of shades easier to appreciate than to translate. _Garbo_ is grace combined with nobility; _donayre_, elegance of bearing, vivacity of wit; _salero_, voluptuous and provocative grace; _zandunga_, the kind of grace peculiar to the Andalusians--a happy mixture of readiness and nonchalance. People applaud the _garbo_ or _donayre_ of a duchess, the _salero_ of an actress, the _zandunga_ of a gipsy of Jerez.--MÉRIMÉE, p. 110. [27] The enchantment of Don Pedro by Maria Padilla is a popular tradition in Andalusia, where the memory of both is vividly preserved. It is further added, that Maria Padilla was a queen of the gipsies--their _bari crallisa_--consequently consummate mistress of the art of concocting philters. Unfortunately, the gipsies were scarcely seen in Europe till a century later. The author of the _Première Vie du Pape Innocent VI._ gravely relates that Blanche, having made her husband a present of a golden girdle, Maria Padilla, assisted by a Jew, a notorious sorcerer, changed it into a serpent, one day that the king had it on. The surprise of the king and his court may be imagined, when the girdle began to writhe and hiss; whereupon the Padilla easily succeeded in persuading her lover that Blanche was a magician bent upon destroying him by her arts.--MÉRIMÉE, p. 120. [28] ZUÑIGA, _Anales de Sevilla_.--"The people say, that Maria Coronel, pursued by Don Pedro, in the suburb of Triana, plunged her head into a pan in which a gipsy was cooking fritters. I was shown the house in front of which the incident occurred, and I was desired to remark, as an incontrovertible proof, that it is still inhabited by gipsies, whose kitchen is in the open street."--MÉRIMÉE, p. 247.