The Devil's Details: The Evolution of the Devil through Art and Literature

Chapter four of The Chronicle of Young Satan is where Eseldorf stops being a quirky medieval village and starts being a place where people get burned. The witch panic has expanded beyond old women — it's anyone now, children as young as eight or nine — and Twain illustrates this with two stories that land hard: eleven convent schoolgirls starved and isolated until one confessed to dancing with Satan at the sabbath (the commission fed her every detail from a papal checklist two centuries old), and Gottfried Narr's grandmother, who confessed immediately and voluntarily, because she'd done the math on her options.Into this atmosphere, Father Adolf spots his opening. Margaret's mysterious wealth — the cat's contributions, the lavish spreads, the wine nobody can explain — has people talking. He sends spies in disguised as friends, tests samples of the food, and when it stays real and rots on a normal schedule, decides that proves it's a new kind of witchcraft. Then he crashes her party for forty guests, and Satan slides into him like a transparent film and fills a wine bottle from a two-pint bottle, tells the room "it is nothing, anybody can do it," juggles a hundred brass balls in the market square, and walks a tightrope blindfolded. The crucifix doesn't help. This is Twain at his most subversive — and it's also exactly the scene Paine-Duneka reassigned to a made-up astrologer in the fraud version, because having the devil publicly humiliate an anointed priest was apparently too much.The chapter ends with Satan at Margaret's, playing Wilhelm's poem back as a full orchestral performance on a jangly old spinet, and Wilhelm correctly identifying him as the devil.The Devil's Details show page/archiveBanana for Scale Facebook GroupConnect with Kynan on Instagram or LetterboxdConnect with Lester on Facebook, Instagram, or X ---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. It's just $5/month or $55/year. Visit our website to learn more.Check out the other podcasts in the Banana for Scale family of podcasts:Every Minute of Everything Everywhere All at OnceThe Exorcist Minute

Fire up your Google Image search! - BAZAM! - Blake's bodacious badonkadonk - What's the deal with this woman clothed with the sun? - "Your father was a hosier!" - The first paralysis demons? - Milton and Blake: the peanut butter and chocolate of the devil - Blake was a Red Hat? (kinda) - The Ghost of a Flea and Voice Of The Devil - Callback to Thomas Butts - Seven Heads, Ten Horns, and One Whole Bakery - You can see his Great Red Dragon! - He's got butts on his butt! - ...and more! ---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. It's just $5/month or $55/year. Visit our website to learn more.Check out the other podcasts in the Banana for Scale family of podcasts:Every Minute of Everything Everywhere All at OnceThe Exorcist Minute

On this episode - This chapter of the bible stars Ralph Fiennes! - "Let's eat Grandma!" - Who is this woman clothed with the sun? - "That thing where you go into the closet with the priest?" - Joseph is a little bit rock n' roll.... - Dragon....deez nuts! - Is the war in heaven PAST tense or FUTURE tense? And why is everyone so TENSE? - DANIEL! - Hey Jude! - Woe unto the inhabiters of the earth AND the sea! (f*ck those fish!) Satan is his own thang! - No scheming devil here, just a raging beast (but not THE beast - that's another guy!) - So Satan is Rufio? - Machiavelli vs.....Good Machiavelli - ...and more! ---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. It's just $5/month or $55/year. Visit our website to learn more.Check out the other podcasts in the Banana for Scale family of podcasts:Every Minute of Everything Everywhere All at OnceThe Exorcist Minute

On this episode - Tevildo, Prince Of Cats! - John of Patmos eats his words! - In the beginning there was the word....and it was delicious! - What does a Stephen King book taste like? - Bathtub Gin (If you know The Shining, that's really funny) - the literary equivalent of brussel sprout farts - John is pushin' my buttons - Personal Pan Prophecy - Special guest Bing Crosby - Theophany: the appearance of Theo - ...and more! ---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. It's just $5/month or $55/year. Visit our website to learn more.Check out the other podcasts in the Banana for Scale family of podcasts:Every Minute of Everything Everywhere All at OnceThe Exorcist Minute

Worm woulda, shoulda, coulda - The Three Woes - "Woa, woa, woa!" - A want a third of his family DEAD! - The GODfather - Why is the film called the Seventh Seal and not the Fourth Seal? - "ABOUT half an hour?" - the calm before the storm - the trouble with Chernobyl being the beginning of the end is that it was forty years ago - Wormwood, Mugwort, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw - She's so licorice! - How can a star be made out of wood?! - The more you know....the more of a sinner you are! - ....and more! ---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. It's just $5/month or $55/year. Visit our website to learn more.Check out the other podcasts in the Banana for Scale family of podcasts:Every Minute of Everything Everywhere All at OnceThe Exorcist Minute

On this episode: Horse MEN, or Horsemen? - Come and see! - What the HELL is goin' on?! - our first view of the Antichrist (kinda) - NOW I understand Tombstone! - We make some leaps (much like those horses!) - Hold your horsemen! - The wrath of the lamb is an oxymoron....even though it's a lamb - Milton definitely read Revelation - You are two paychecks away from being homeless - "hurt not the oil and the wine" - We are the world, we are the Romans - Don't ALL of these involve death? - The four MODERN horsemen: Pedantism, Punnery, Rulenick and Math - The Pestilence Problem - The Sad Collector! - "Bu-LOOD!" ...and more! ---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. It's just $5/month or $55/year. Visit our website to learn more.Check out the other podcasts in the Banana for Scale family of podcasts:Every Minute of Everything Everywhere All at OnceThe Exorcist Minute

On this version: Heavens to murgatroyd! - Must be Maybelline - So are we talking about four beasts with four heads, one beast with four heads, or four beasts with one head? - Twelve is a number of completeness because twelve is a number of completeness - Holy, holy, holy! - Should American students be forced to learn Arabic numerals as part of their math curriculum? - angeLOLogy! - Stick to King Lear, Scofield! - This is the song that never ends! - Who has two thumbs and created all? This guy! - Who runs the world? Girls. - ...and more! ---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. It's just $5/month or $55/year. Visit our website to learn more.Check out the other podcasts in the Banana for Scale family of podcasts:Every Minute of Everything Everywhere All at OnceThe Exorcist Minute