How does one gauge the value of a soul? Faust learned this lesson the hard way, by selling his soul and then regretting it. American musician Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul in order to become ...

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Inside the books of intricate scribblings, which include the entire Bible, is a full page colour drawing of Satan. Legend has it the medieval manuscript emerged from a pact with Lucifer, earning it ...

A cursed manuscript and a pact with the devil; the debut single by doom metal band Swarm Chain dig deep into history and obscure legends. Entitled 'Codex Gigas', this new song is named after the ...

A short walk through almost any Czech city exposes the country as a historical epicenter of esoteric and occult treasures, with mysterious symbolism built into much of the architecture and city ...

The Codex Gigas, the Latin for ‘Giant Book’ is an eight century old leather-bound manuscript that is thought to have been influenced by Satan. The huge 89 centimetre tall, 49 centimetre wide book ...

The 13th century leatherbound tome is believed to be the world’s largest surviving medieval manuscript and is kept in a vault at the National Library of Sweden. At 89cm tall and 49cm wide, it’s the ...

Marcel Proust may have written a novel over 4,000 pages long, but there are other books out there of goliath proportions not in their length, but their size. Religious texts in particular have gotten ...

A monumental Bible rumoured to have been written with the help of the Devil has been returned to Prague for the first time in 350 years. An illustrated page of the 'Codex Gigas' also known as 'Giant ...

These incredible pictures show the massive 'Devil's Bible' - which some say Satan himself helped to create using his unearthly powers. The Codex Gigas is the largest surviving medieval manuscript in ...