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May 10, 2024 · Vincent Kompany claims he was never tempted to “sign a pact with the Devil” to survive with Burnley. Burnley are staring down the barrel of relegation on Saturday and will go down after just...
May 10, 2024 · Kompany says he wasn't prepared to gamble the club's future by signing expensive Premier League players on big contracts. He did spend over £90million on overhauling his squad with younger players and feels they have added value to the team.
Jul 9, 2024 · It concerns a humanity strung between Heaven and Hell, the saintly and the satanic; how a man could trade his soul for powers omnipotent, signing a covenant with the Devil so that he could briefly live as a god before being pulled down to Hell.
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (c. 1480–1540). The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at a crossroads, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.
For example, in one famous story, Sæmundur made a pact with the devil that the devil should bring him home to Iceland from Europe on the back of a seal. Sæmundur escaped a diabolical end when, on arrival, he hit the seal on the head with the Bible , killing it, and stepping safely ashore.
In season 3, episode 11 (76 overall) of The Twilight Zone ("Still Valley"), a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War in tempted to make a pact with the devil in order to achieve a Confederate victory in the Battle of Gettysburg, but in the end rejects it and states that "if the Confederacy is to die, let it be buried in hallowed ground".
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Aug 5, 2024 · So, as Ed Simon shrewdly notes, we might see Simon Magus’s desired pact as one made not with the Devil but with the Devil-in-Chief, “that equally malevolent deity known as God.”
