I am indeed surprised that a people over whom Achilles once ruled had a reputation for magic so lasting that actually Menander, a man with an unrivalled gift for sound literary taste, gave the name "Thessala" to his comedy, which deals fully with the tricks of the women for calling down the moon.
Pliny, Natural History, 30.2.7 (Loeb volume 8, page 283, translation W.H.S. Jones)
Her governess, who had nursed her as a child, was named Thessala and was skilled in necromancy. She was called Thessala because she had been born in Thessaly, where diabolical enchantments flourish and are taught. The women of this land practise magic spells and bewitchments.
Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès, in Arthurian Romances, page 159 (Penguin translation by Wm. W. Kibler)
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