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Podcast: Bone and Sickle
Episode: The Devil's Due, Musicians and Marksmen
Description: In this episode we look at legends of musicians and marksmen said to have made Faustian deals with the Devil.
We begin with The Phantom of the Opera, a story which does not exactly share our theme, but was set against the backdrop of a staging of the opera Faust by Charles Gounod. The story, written in 19111 by French journalist and writer Gaston Leroux, also has a macabre connection to Der Freischütz (“the marksmen,” for our purposes), the German legend of a marksman who enlists the Devil’s help in a test of marksmanship. This particular connectio...