Johann Georg Faust
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Johann Georg Faust, sometimes also Georg Sabellicus Faustus and known in English as John Faustus, was a German itinerant alchemist, astrologer, and magician of the German Renaissance. He was often cal
Title page of one of the Höllenzwang grimoires attributed to D. Faustus Magus Maximus Kundlingensis (18th century)
Page of Praxis Magia Faustiana (1527)
Title page of a 1588 edition of the Faustbuch
Deal with the Devil
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A deal with the Devil or Faustian bargain is a cultural trope exemplified most famously by the legend of Faust and the figure of Mephistopheles, as well as being elemental to many Christian traditions
Johann Georg Faust
…Faustbuch des Christlich Meynenden (1725) Deal with the Devil Pan Twardowski…
Engraving of Faust's pact with Mephisto, by Adolf Gnauth (circa 1840)
Copy of a written deal by Christoph Haizmann from 1669.
Urbain Grandier's pact
Pope Sylvester II and the devil in an illustration of c. 1460.