Deals with the Devil

Deals with the devil transcript: Today we are going to be diving into stories about people who decided to deal with the dubious demon himself selling their immortal souls for mere shekels. By dealing with the devil, you have to accept that there is an afterlife and that you're gonna be burning for eternity after you get your 15 minutes of fun. To start with we are going to go back to one of the earliest examples of devil dealing which is the German magician that was known as Johann Georg Faust many believe is the Faust of folklore, id accuse him of being in league with the devil for that magnificent beard alone but that’s just me, the story begins with Faust a depressed scholar who attempts to take his own life and after failing he calls upon the devil for magical powers and unseen knowledge. The devil sends Mephistopheles who bargains with Faust lending him his magical powers for many years in exchange for his eternal soul. Immediately he abuses his power to play cheap practical jokes which honestly is kinda of lame, to be honest. Give me magical powers and shit is getting super tyrannical super quickly. Faust however used his powers to play basically lame trolls in one tale he sells a horse trader an enchanted horse which turned into a pile of clay after he rides it, congrats man you really got him. Or this other time he turned invisible and slapped the pope, ok this one is actually kind of funny to be honest but still kind of dumb, after he slapped the pope the firars that were around the pope began to pray to which he then beat up the friars and set off fireworks before leaving. All in all, he was just being an arsehole for most of the years he had his powers. Faust then seduces a woman named Gretchen with the help of his magical powers. In most renditions of the story, she gives birth to his illegitimate child and ends up drowning the child, she is then sentenced to death for the murder but because of her innocence, she still makes it to heaven, which I can kind of understand she could probably get off saying that she was under duress or something. Faust however nearing the end of his contract becomes more and more corrupted and eventually when the term ends he is dragged to hell. There are some other versions where he's saved by some bullshit but not on this channel here we believe in accountability and continuity. Our second deal with the devil will be the tale of Pope Sylvester the second. It begins with him traveling to Spain in search of knowledge of mathematics astrology and astronomy. He was rumored to have met up with a Saracen philosopher at the time who taught him the dark arts. he wasn’t taught everything though as the Saracen had a secret book with all dark arts knowledge that he kept from Gerbert, yea by the way the pope guys real name was Gerbert lol. So Gerbert devised a plan to get the Saracen drunk and let him sleep with his daughter in order to steal it while he was sleeping which worked but, it seems a bit weird to pimp your daughter out just for a book of spells but he apparently used it to ascend to the papacy so I guess it was worth it? He then apparently made a bronze head that was possessed by a demon and would answer his questions with a yes or no and it told him that if he ever read mass in Jerusalem the devil would come for him. He then cancelled his trips to Jerusalem and when one time he read a mass at a church in Rome named the holy cross of Jerusalem the devil apparently pulled out his eyes and gave them to demons to play with. Im guess the devil is a little mad at him because apparently in another version of his story, he played dice with the devil for the papacy and won. Shortly after the mass he became ill and was dying he then asked his cardinals to cut his body up and scatter it across the city. That’s not all as because of a mistranslation of his tomb people believe that you can hear his bones rattling just before the death of a pope, so just imagine being Pope Sylvester in hell If he actually did deal with the devil but every 70 years or so you just start shucking and jiving randomly because another pope is about to die. Guiseppe Tartini is our final man who made a deal with the devil (supposedly). He was an Italian composer who composed over 100 different pieces for the violin however his most famous body of work was

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