The Scholomance[a] (Romanian: Șolomanță [ʃoloˈmantsə], Solomonărie [solomonəˈri.e]) was a fabled school of black magic in Romania, especially in the region of Transylvania.
An early source on the Scholomance and Dracula folklore was the article "Transylvanian Superstitions" (1885), written by Scottish expatriate Emily Gerard.
[7] Twenty years earlier, a description of the Scholomance and its pupils (the Scholomonariu) was given in an article written by Wilhelm Schmidt (1817–1901), a German schoolteacher at the Hungarian Saxon town of Hermannstadt.
[15] Some sources add specifically the pupils were instructed on how to cast magic spells, ride flying dragons, and control the rain.
[11] The duration of their study was seven[15][11] or nine years,[6] and the final assignment for graduation required the copying of one's entire knowledge of humanity into a "Solomonar's book".
[1] The Scholomance, according to Gerard, was at some unspecified location deep in the mountains, but the dragon (spelled in Romanian as zmeu,[20] though given as ismeju[21]) was stabled underwater in a small mountaintop lake south of Hermannstadt in eastern Kingdom of Hungary (modern Sibiu, Romania, called Nagyszeben in Hungarian).
They learned his secrets in the Scholomance, amongst the mountains over Lake Hermanstadt, where the devil claims the tenth scholar as his due.And in chapter 23: He dared even to attend the Scholomance, and there was no branch of knowledge of his time that he did not essay.Stoker's reference to "Lake Hermanstadt" appears[vague][dubious – discuss] to be a misinterpretation of Gerard's passage, as there is no body of water by that name.
[citation needed] The novel A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik is the first in a series primarily set in a boarding school for young wizards inspired by and named for the legendary Scholomance.
The school is also featured in the Scholomance Academy expansion pack of 2020, for the related game Hearthstone that is also set in the Warcraft universe.