Click Here to Read: What the myth of Faust can teach us: The legend of a man selling his soul to the devil ‘seems to have particular resonance at times of moral crisis’, writes Benjamin Ramm on the BBC Culter website on September 26, 2017.
Little is known of the actual Johann Georg Faust but there is some evidence of his magic tricks, that he studied at Heidelberg University and died in an explosion (Credit: Alamy)