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The Devil to whom Faust sold his soul in the legend. quotations examples
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], part I, page 215
When I'm at the pearly gates / This'll be on my videotape, my videotape / When Mephistopheles is just beneath / And he's reaching up to grab me
2007, “Videotape”, in In Rainbows, performed by Radiohead
A fiendish person, especially one who tricks someone into following a destructive or disastrous course of action; a tempter. quotations examples
Poison in my idle mind makes quick work for the Mephistopheles, / Who quickly makes his excuses
1989, Tim Smith (lyrics and music), “Fast Robert”, in On Land and in the Sea, performed by Cardiacs