Paradine relates the story about the old man, the spell book, and making a deal with the devil.

Special features include ; Two audio commentaries, one featuring Lee and producer-screenwriter James Schamus, and one featuring Elmes, sound designer Drew Kunin, and production designer Mark Friedberg ; a new video interview with star Jeffrey Wright ; and a booklet featuring essays by the critic Godfrey Cheshire and Edward E Leslie, author of The devil knows how to ride: the true story of William Clarke Quantrill and his confederate raiders.

The devil, or, in another version of the story, a wine-besotted Dahut herself, then opened the gate.

He said that shortly after the experience, he told the story of his revelation to a Methodist minister who responded " with great contempt, saying it was all of the devil, that there was no such thing as visions or revelations in these days ; that all such things had ceased with the apostles, and that there never would be any more of them.

In the conclusion to his collection Rich tells a story of a devil named Balthasar, who possesses a king of Scots, prudently changed after the accession of James I to the Grand Turk.

* Javier Reverte, Dios, el diablo y la aventura: La historia de Pedro Páez, el español que descubrió el Nilo Azul ( God, the devil, and adventure: The story of Pedro Páez, the Spaniard who discovered the Blue Nile ).

Ambrosio has already given into his desire for Matilda and the story of the Bleeding Nun told in the subplot foreshadows his further downfall with Antonia and his eternal punishment in the hands of the devil.

Benét's fantasy short story about a devil, The Devil and Daniel Webster ( 1936 ) won an O. Henry Award.

The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge.

Marlowe sets the story in Wittenburg, Germany with Faustus selling his soul to the devil and declaring his servitude to Satan, Mephistophilis: “ I am a servant to great Lucipher and may not follow thee without his leave.

They tell a story about their origins in which the devil is taking a group of Schwenkfelders to Hades and the bag broke over Harpersdorf.

For example, in one story, the human escapes after betting the devil he cannot fit inside an empty nutshell ( which the devil does just to prove he can ).

This is the story of the Gatineau loggers who make a pact with the devil in order to steal a boat so they can visit their women.

Another Javanese folk story tells of Arya Penangsang, the mighty viceroy ( adipati ) of Jipang who was killed by his own kris called Setan Kober (" devil of the grave ").

The final sentence is an Aesop-style after-the-fact " moral of the story " about swearing and suggested that if there was a devil, there must also be a God ..." Watching his language.

Kenny in his 2003 book Marathon Marriage uses a story of the devil losing a game of cards to a blacksmith named Banagher at the Black Stile at Garry Castle on the road between Banagher and Birr, as an explanation for the phrase.

" It seems, though, that nobody ascertained whether the kangaroos had escaped, nor how they could have crossed the Exe estuary, and Musgrave himself said that he only came up with the story to distract his parishioners ' concerns about a visit from the devil:

The story concludes with the narrator's warning that " Nevsky Prospect deceives at all hours of the day, but the worst time of all is at night ... when the devil himself is abroad, kindling the street-lamps with one purpose only: to show everything in a false light.

There is a story in " Grandfather Tales ", a collection of tall tales from the region, called " Wicked John and the Devil " about a man who even the devil feared, who when he died was given a red hot coal by the Devil and told to go to the Great Dismal Swamps to make his own hell.

Angel Densetsu is a story about Seiichirou Kitano, a kind and naive boy with the heart of an angel, but the sinister looks of a devil.

The music is scored for a septet of violin, double bass, clarinet, bassoon, cornet ( often played on trumpet ), trombone, and percussion, and the story is told by three actors: the soldier, the devil, and a narrator, who also takes on the roles of minor characters.

Obsessed with restoring his mystic might, the sorcerer read the story of how the man called Faust had sold his soul to the devil for supernatural powers, and decided to do the same.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.

It is the gradual unfolding and deepening of this contradiction which creates the inner dialectic of the evolution of the mystery story.

It is the growing contradiction between individualism and public service in the mystery story which creates this fatal dilemma.

And the best way to conceal and disguise the elements of an incest story is not to set out to write an incest story.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

It is the story of the hopeless love of a little boy for his cold and vain mother.

The rocking is actually felt in the story, a terrible and ominous rhythm that prophesies the tragedy.

The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

It is most probable that Freud and the Oedipus complex never entered his head in the writing of this story.

An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.

Then he would get to his feet, as though rising in honor of his own remarkable powers, and say almost invariably, `` Gentlemen, this is an amazing story!!

Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

Beginning in Cloth Of The Tempest ( 1943 ) he experimented in merging poetry and visual art, using drawings to carry long narrative segments of a story, as in Sleepers Awake, and constructing elaborate `` poems-in-drawing-and-type '' in which it is impossible to distinguish between the `` art '' and the poetry.

The story of the fatal crash is not fully known.