Robert Johnson
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Robert Leroy Johnson was an American blues musician and songwriter. His singing, guitar playing and songwriting on his landmark 1936 and 1937 recordings have influenced later generations of musicians.
Alleged gravesite at Payne Chapel near Quito, with one of Johnson's three tombstones
Alleged gravesite at Little Zion Church north of Greenwood
The crossroads at Clarksdale, Mississippi
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
Robert Johnson
…reconstructed by researchers. Johnson's poorly documented life and death have given rise to legends. The one most often associated with him is that he sold his soul to the devil at a local crossroads in return for musical success. His music had a small but influential following during his life and in the decades after his death…
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.