Faust Redux - The Evocation of Mephisto - F.W. Marnau - William Nowik Soundtrack

German alchemist Faust is the object of a wager between God and Satan. Faust has a book of spells in which he discovers a ritual summoning Mephisto/Mephistopheles, a demon. In this scene, Faust, in the middle of a crossroad, performs the ritual. Satan sends Mephisto to Earth to offer Faust both an end to the plague that is making it's way through the local population, and eternal youth, in return for the small price of his soul. In the delta of the Mississippi River, where Robert Johnson was born, it's said that if an aspiring bluesman waited by the side of a deserted country crossroads in the dark of night, then Satan himself might come and tune his guitar, sealing a pact for the bluesman's soul and guaranteeing a lifetime of easy money, women, and fame. And so it's told Robert Johnson waited in a crossroad one night and had his guitar tuned by Satan himself.

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