midnight
This author not only shared the somewhat general Catholic view that all Protestants were eternally damned , but she naïvely believed that every son of Israel had a tail -LRB- Julian Schmidt -RRB- . The story of woman 's triumph over the Devil is well characteristic of the Land of the Blessed Lady , as Andalusia is commonly called . The legend of a devil imprisoned in a phial is also found in the work of the Spaniard Luis Velez de Guevara called _ El Diablo cojuelo _ -LRB- 1641 -RRB- , from whom Alain Le Sage borrowed both title and plot for his novel _ Le Diable boiteux _ -LRB- 1707 -RRB- . Asmodeus , liberated from a bottle , into which he had been confined by a magician , entertains his deliverer with the secret sights of a big city at midnight , by unroofing the houses of the Spanish capital and showing him the life that was going on in them . The legend was introduced into Spain from the East by the Moors and finally acclimated to find a place in local traditions . From that country it spread over the whole of Europe . The Asiatics believed that by abstinence and special prayers evil spirits could be reduced into obedience and confined in black bottles .