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3 characters that agreed with the devil

Urban novels and legends tell us about characters that succeeded or got what they wanted thanks to a pact with the devil .In Mysterious we talk about the figure of "The Familiar", a monstrous being who in return for human flesh provided wealth and power to the one who had agreed with the devil.On this occasion we bring you 3 cases of characters that are said to have agreed with the devil and their stories.

3 characters who agreed with the devil

Urbain Grandier

Urbain Grandier was a Catholic priest French who lived in the seventeenth century.He was accused of agreeing with the devil and executed for it.Urbain was a very charismatic man, open minded for the time attracted his sermons at most important people of the diocese of Poitiers.He also had frequent love affairs with his parishioners and pupils who found him irresistible .Unfortunately he left the daughter of the prosecutor in the area pregnant and won his enmity eternal.He also turned against Richelieu himself, before being named Cardinal, by not giving up the place in a procession.With these two important characters against, when he was accused by the priory of the nunnery Loudon ursulins having bewitched, agreeing with the devil , to have relations with them, was sentenced to death .

3 characters that agreed with the devil

In his room was a document signed by he and by Asmodeus (Lucifer) in which he said to renounce God to serve the devil.

Niccolo Paganini

Paganini was born in Italy, 1782 . Legend has it that when he counted 5 years to his mother, Teresa Bocciardo, the devil appeared and made a pact with her . Niccolo's soul in exchange for his becoming an extraordinary violinist .This rumor spread throughout all the salons of France and Italy, countries where he lived and developed his musical career.

It certainly seemed that the rumor was true because Paganini moved his fingers on the strings of the violin and the other instruments he played as nobody could do .Also, due to tuberculosis and the syphilis he suffered, he was always pale and emaciated.It did not help to deny the talk that he always wore black and was driven by a carriage of the same color pulled by black horses.When he died, he did not want to receive the extreme function and could not be buried in a ce By means of Catholicism, his son had the body for 5 years in a basement until he was authorized to bury him.

3 characters that agreed with the devil

Portrait of Paganini.Delacroix 1832

What happened to Paganini was not the result of a pact with the devil , but of a disease called Marfan syndrome , which affects the fingers and joints, making them extremely long and flexible.This arachnodactyly is what allowed him to reach levels of perfection in the musical technical execution.

Charles Baudelaire

Baudelarie, poet born in Paris in 1821 , was accused of being a devil worshiper due basically to some of his verses like the Satan's Litanies .It was said that he had agreed to the literary success in exchange for his soul .

«Glory And praise to you, Satan, in the heights Of the sky where you reign and in the depths Of the hell in which you sound, defeated and silent.Make my soul, under the Tree of Science, Near you rest, when, on your forehead, As a new church its branches expand.»

It was said that he had agreed to literary success in exchange for his soul.Baudelaire, convinced atheist, praised the devil in his verses not for a pact, but for rebellion , I wanted to go against established morals.Illnesses that slowly undermined his body seemed, in the eyes of his contemporaries, the reliable proof that after the sale of his soul, his body was falling apart.

3 characters that agreed with the devil

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