On the same side, a few metres along, a little house with an old structure brings us back to a Cervantine fable. It is on this little site, so tradition tells us, that with the witches of Montilla lived Las Camachas. The little house still holds the aura of times past. It is here that the three witches of Montilla, immortalized by Cervantes in his novel El Coloquio de los perros lived.

In house number four of the old street Taraquilla, if tradition is to be blindly believed, lived the legendary witches known as Las Camachas.

Among them we must point out the controversial historical go-between Leonor Rodriguez ´La Camacha´ whose witchcraft is continuously mentioned by Cervantes in 'El Coloquio de los Perros'.

The old building of solid walls, corners, halls and galleries built around a central courtyard is kept in quite remarkable condition despite its age and the effects of the persistent rains. This circumstance and the hospitality of the neighbours who live here, allows the occasional visitor access to the old rooms, cellars and corridors placed at different levels with regard to the main building

The story upon which Cervantes centres his fictional stay could have been heard personally by the author himself during his stay in Montilla in the latter years of the sixteenth century. Miguel de Cervantes would note down the popular rumours, the story of the judged witch by the Spanish Inquisition, possibly increased by exaggeration and malicious gossip. In his famous exemplary novel, the writer describes Leonor Rodriguez 'La Camacha', with precise expressions which correctly define the gossip monger and procuress witch:

'The most famous sorceress who lived…so unique in her occupation that the Eritos, Circes and Medeas who filled history didn't equal her. The one who solved irredeemable maids who had made some mistake in keeping their integrity, she hid the widows who were dishonest honestly, she unmarried married women and married those she wished'.

Alonso de Aguilar (a landowner from the family of the Marquis of Priego) went to the same tavern as La Camacha, which popular tradition situates en the old in Tarasquilla street, to ask the witches for their potions to seduce a Montilla lady called Doña Mayor de Solier.

Apparently the witches teased the lady, who a short time after, as Cobos says 'started giving off unmistakable signs of budding maternity'. Doña Mayor guaranteed her mother that the pregnancy was a consequence of the witchcraft of Las Camachas and she brought the case to the Inquisition. However, 'the mercy of Don Alonso and the desire to avoid a major scandal, the rape was disguised as witchery'. According to the Inquisition's accounts, the young lady was surprised and fainted in one of the rooms of the house after seeing Don Alonso transformed by witchcraft, into a majestic horse. The story could have happened in a very different way, to the point that it could have been Doña Mayor's own mother who asked for the help of the witches to capture the young rich man in order to make him marry her daughter. One way or another, those unfortunate relationships resulted in the birth of Pedro Ximenez, who was later admitted and legitimatised, taking the name of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba y Aguilar. His father, Don Alonso, died in the battle of Alcazarquivir, where King Sebastián also disappeared in the August of 1578.