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Death Note manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata; Light Yagami makes a pact with a Shinigami. [42] Demon Candy: Parallel, an original English-language manga by Lord Dragon Master, Jonathan is tricked into selling his soul for a Klondike bar. [43] [44] Doctor Strange, story line in Doctor Strange: Damnation. [41]
Surviving relatives of Virginia told the blues researcher Robert "Mack" McCormick that this was a divine punishment for Robert's decision to sing secular songs, known as "selling your soul to the Devil". McCormick believed that Johnson himself accepted the phrase as a description of his resolve to abandon the settled life of a husband and ...
Conversely, it may have a comic twist, in which a wily peasant outwits the devil, characteristically on a technical point. The person making the pact sometimes tries to outwit the devil, but loses in the end (e.g., man sells his soul for eternal life because he will never die to pay his end of the bargain.
Originally title Action Faust, it is an interpretation of the tale from the Devil's perspective. "Bohemian Rhapsody" by English rock band Queen. From the album A Night at the Opera. "Faust" by singer songwriter Paul Williams from the original soundtrack of The Phantom of the Paradise. "Faust" by English virtual band Gorillaz, from their album G ...
"The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936) is a short story by American writer Stephen Vincent Benét. He tells of a New Hampshire farmer who sells his soul to the devil and is later defended by a fictionalized Daniel Webster, a noted 19th-century American statesman, lawyer and orator. The narrative references real events in the lives of Webster and ...
17-year-old Eugene Martone has a fascination for blues music while studying classical guitar at the Juilliard School in New York City. Researching blues and guitar music brings famed Robert Johnson's mythically creative acclaim to his attention; especially intriguing are the legends surrounding exactly how Johnson became so talented – most notably the one claiming he "sold his soul to the ...
Bobby, desperate to support his wife, Wendy, and start a family, muses that he would sell his soul to the devil to get ahead. The Devil begins to appear to Bobby as a prospective agent named Harry O. Tophet [a] and offers Shelton a deal—seven years of unprecedented fame and fortune. Shelton balks at the deal, and so Tophet renegotiates ...
The modern English text gives: "There once lived a man named Mercury, who was very deceitful, and, though quite wise in speech, was treacherous in actions and lies. The pagans, in their account, also made him their great god and often and frequently offered him sacrifices at crossroads, through the teachings of the devil, and to high hills they ...