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Curated catalog of supernatural beings in 10 languages. Mythology, demonology, cryptozoology and folklore documented with relationships, taxonomies and sources.
Mephistopheles
Mephistopheles, Faustian tempter demon of souls in exchange for knowledge
Mephistopheles is a Faustian tempter demon who offers pacts of knowledge and power in exchange for human souls, central figure of the Faust cycle (Marlowe, Goethe).
The Black Man of the Crossroads
The stranger who tunes the guitar at the crossing
The nameless figure who in the American South takes the instrument at midnight, tunes it and hands it back. Puckett wrote him down in 1926 and LeDell Johnson told of him in 1966.
Crossroads Demon
The devil conjured where the roads cross
The devil who comes where no one holds sway. From the suppers of Hecate and the altars of the Lares to the twenty-four-year contract Faust signs in blood in the book printed in 1587.
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