#482 Faust

Faust- German legend: a magician and alchemist who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power

Faustian- adj.

Goethe (1790) accomplished the transformation of Faust from a common necromancer and conjurer into a personification of humanity, tempted and disquieted, but at length groping its way to the light.

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