Jan 2, 2010
The Devil’s Elixirs | The Devil’s Elixirs
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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