The Devil’s Elixirs (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman
- First Published: 1815
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: Eighteenth century
- Setting: Germany and Italy
- Principal Characters: Medardus, Aurelia, Francesco, Prince von Rosenthurm, Count Victorin, Leonardus, An Abbess, Pietro Belcampo
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Supernatural, Mental illness, Violence, Eighteenth century, Devils or demons, Italy or Italians, Germany or German people, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Dopplegangers
- Locales: Germany, Italy
The Story:
Francis was born at the Convent of the Holy Lime-Tree in Prussia, at the moment that his father lay dying. At Kreuzberg, the abbess of the Cistercian convent made him her pupil. When he was sixteen years old, he became a monk at the Capuchin convent in Konigswald and took the name of Medardus. Medardus was put in charge of the relics of the convent. Among them was a strange elixir. Legend said that all who drank of the potion would belong to the devil, and that if two persons drank of it, they would share the same thoughts and desires but secretly wish to destroy...
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