Let’s make a deal, as playwright David Davalos, author of the award-winning Wittenberg, helps us learn all about the history of Faustus, the world’s most infamous Satanic scholar, and where his legend comes from.
SHOW LINKS
- Black Mass Appeal Group on Facebook
- Satanic band showcase: FaustFest guidelines and submission form
- Vice: The Texas GOP Really Thinks Planned Parenthood Works With Satanists
- David Davalos’s website
- Wittenberg, by David Davalos
- Children of Lucifer, by Rubin Van Luijk, 2016
- Lure of the Sinister, by Gareth Medway, 2001
- Letter from 16th century German Abbott Johannes Trithemius, talking shit about a guy named Faust
- Encyclopedia of Ideas: Motif in Literature: The Faust Theme
- Wisconsin Magazine of History on Dr. Johann Fust
- The Faust Book
- The Paris Review: One Devil Too Many – Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus at four hundred
- “Faust, Art, & Religion,” Kenneth Kierans, Kings College, 2003
- Wishbone’s Faust on YouTube
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I mean, if he claimed to be able to magically influence people it’s a little bit odd that he died in penury. Magic IS about influencing people, isn’t it? (This is a rhetorical question.) If he had claimed not to have “profound knowledge” of people or their feelings or how to influence them…well, that would be very fair on his part. But of course, reading his books reveals precisely the inverse opinion. -D