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Mephistopheles [a] (/ ˌ m ɛ f ɪ ˈ s t ɒ f ɪ ˌ l iː z /, German pronunciation: [mefɪˈstoːfɛlɛs]), also known as Mephisto, [1] is a demon featured in German folklore. He originally appeared in literature as the demon in the Faust legend and has since become a stock character appearing in other works of arts and popular culture.
Mephistopheles and Margaretta is a 19th-century wooden double sculpture featuring two images carved on opposite sides; it portrays two characters from German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1808 play Faust. The obverse depicts the demon Mephistopheles, and the reverse depicts a woman, Margaretta (Margaret, or Gretchen). A mirror placed ...
Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game (a.k.a. Marvel Legendary [1]) is a cooperative deck-building game for 1-5 players, released in 2012. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was designed by Devin Low and published by Upper Deck Entertainment, a division of Upper Deck Company .
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.
As the parts of the ship are replaced, the question remains as to whether the same ship remains throughout. The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and a common thought experiment about whether an object is the same object after having all of its original components replaced over time, typically one after the other.
Mephisto is a demon character based on Mephistopheles from the Faust legend. He was created in 1968 by Stan Lee and John Buscema and has primarily been an adversary of Ghost Rider and Silver ...
Inspired by Mephistopheles of the Faust legend, [8] he was introduced into Marvel comics by writer Stan Lee and penciler John Buscema, Mephisto debuted in Silver Surfer #3 (cover dated Dec. 1968), [9] and was established as a perennial foe for the cosmic hero, [10] also appearing in Silver Surfer #8–9 (Sept.–Oct. 1969) and 16–17 (May–June 1970).
Their name is a portmanteau of "ska" and "Mephistopheles", of the Faust legend. As their name suggests, their lyrics are often playfully satanic in nature. Career