Brewer's: Padua

was long supposed by the Scotch to be the chief school of necromancy; hence Sir Walter Scott says of the Earl of Gowrie—

He learned the art that none may name In Padua, far beyond the sea.

Lay of the Last Minstrel.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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