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    Mephistopheles (/ˌmɛfɪˈstɒfɪliːz/ MEF-ist-OF-il-eez, German: [mefɪˈstoːfəlɛs] ), also known as Mephostophilis or Mephisto, is a demon featured in German...
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  • Look up Mephistopheles in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mephisto or Mephistopheles is one of the chief demons of German literary tradition. Mephisto...
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    in Hell. Mephistopheles accepts the wager. When Mephistopheles tells Faust to sign the pact with blood, Faust complains that Mephistopheles does not trust...
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    Mephistopheles and Margaretta is a 19th-century wooden double sculpture featuring two images carved on opposite sides; it portrays two characters from...
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  • (December 1968), and was created by Stan Lee and John Buscema and based on Mephistopheles: a demon character from the Faust legend, who has sometimes been referred...
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    popular throughout Germany in the 16th century, often reducing Faust and Mephistopheles to figures of vulgar fun. The story was popularised in England by Christopher...
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    The Fiat Mephistopheles (known in Italian as Mefistofele) is a one-off racing car created by Ernest A.D. Eldridge in 1923 by combining a Fiat racing car...
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    This article lists cultural references to Mephistopheles, the fictional devil from Faust and Doctor Faustus who has been used in other pieces of literature...
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    as a magician through his pact with Lucifer—facilitated by the demon Mephistopheles—and his ultimate downfall as he fails to repent before his damnation...
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    Méphistophélès appears (duet: "Me voici") and, with a tempting image of Marguerite at her spinning wheel, persuades Faust to buy Méphistophélès's services...
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    A Modern Mephistopheles is a gothic thriller published by the Roberts Brothers in 1877 and written by Louisa May Alcott. It is based on Goethe's Faust...
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    with a prologue in Heaven, where the Lord bets Mephistopheles, an agent of the Devil, that Mephistopheles cannot lead astray the Lord's favourite striving...
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  • released on February 17, 2012, with Cage reprising his role. The demon Mephistopheles sends his bounty hunter, the Ghost Rider, to retrieve the contract of...
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  • Laboratory of Mephistopheles (French: Le Cabinet de Méphistophélès), initially released in Britain and America as Laboratory of Mephistopheles and also known...
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    Bubalus mephistopheles, also known as the short-horned water buffalo, is an extinct species of bovine that lived in China during the Pleistocene and Holocene...
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    act ends in darkness and tumult. Mephistopheles transports the unconscious Faust into his old study. Mephistopheles, donning Faust's robe once again,...
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  • of Ludwig van Beethoven on the last night of his life, as the devil, Mephistopheles, comes to collect his soul. With the help of Fate and her son Twist...
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    In conceiving of Woland, Bulgakov draws heavily from the figure of Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust, a connection made explicit by the use of an epigraph...
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    "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" is a song by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released as the first promotional single from the band's ninth...
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  • / Guido da Polenta Al Pacino John Malkovich Benjamin Clementine as Mephistopheles Claudio Santamaria Guido Caprino Mohamed Zouaoui Paolo Bonacelli as...
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    cultural motif exemplified by the legend of Faust and the figure of Mephistopheles, as well as being elemental to many Christian traditions. According...
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  • enters a troubled sleep, so Méphistophélès sends spirits to watch over him. Faust wakes up and demands that Méphistophélès summon Hélène. Hélène is summoned...
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    its worldwide reputation to Goethe's play Faust as the first place Mephistopheles takes Faust on their travels. A wine bar at the site was already mentioned...
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    work also reinterpreted the metaphysical journey Faust is sent on by Méphistophélès in relation to the Mars One project; portraying the dilemma of man leaving...
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  • The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced between November 9, 1985, and May 24, 1986, the eleventh season...
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  • and their respective mentors, the Archangel Raphael and the demon Mephistopheles, both use psychological tactics to get them to do as they wish. Ella...
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  • Gugusse and the Automaton Between Calais and Dover The Laboratory of Mephistopheles The Barber and the Farmer The Bewitched Inn A Private Dinner After the...
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    names—Satan (Judaism), Lucifer (Christianity), Beelzebub (Judeo-Christian), Mephistopheles (German), Iblis (Islam)—and attributes: it is portrayed as blue, black...
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  • Faust and Marguerite may refer to: Faust and Marguerite (opera), an opera Faust and Marguerite (1900 film), directed by Edwin S. Porter Faust and Marguerite...
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    The bat circles the room, before suddenly changing into the Devil. Mephistopheles produces a cauldron and an assistant, who helps him conjure a woman...
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