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Theophilus of Adana, a saint who made a deal with the devil, predates the Faust legend and is a likely partial inspiration. [31] Timm Thaler, 1962 children's novel by German author James Krüss [32] The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe, (1592) [33] The Unfortunate Fursey and The Return of Fursey, novels by Mervyn Wall ...
The devil completed the manuscript and the monk added the devil's picture out of gratitude for his aid. [10] Notable supposed deals with the devil were struck between the 15th and 18th centuries. The motif lives on among musicians until the 20th century: Johann Georg Faust (1466/80–1541), whose life was the origin of the Faust legend. [11]
Robert Leroy Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, possibly on May 8, 1911, [4] to Julia Major Dodds (born October 1874) and Noah Johnson (born December 1884). Julia was married to Charles Dodds (born February 1865), a relatively prosperous landowner and furniture maker, with whom she had ten children.
As a freelance copy editor, I was always looking to fill my schedule, praying for long-term gigs so that I wouldn't have to constantly search the job boards. Then one day a close friend of mine ...
Brown, now 33, was no run-of-the-mill street criminal when he cut a deal with the State Attorney’s Office in 2014. As the teenage leader of the A&E gang (so-named due to their affection for ...
Folklore of the southern United States identifies a crossroads or graveyard as the site of a pact with the Devil, [26] which music writer Elijah Wald identifies as a likely source of the myth. [27] Another source may be Delta bluesman Tommy Johnson (no relation to Robert), who promoted himself as having made a deal with the Devil. [26] Wald writes:
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La Chasse-galerie by Henri Julien, 1906, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. La Chasse-galerie, also known as "The Bewitched Canoe" or "The Flying Canoe", is a popular French-Canadian tale of lumberjacks from camps working around the Gatineau River who make a deal with the devil, a variant of the Wild Hunt.