This figure's story is interwoven with an account of Velasquez's philosophical system in Jan Potocki's novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, in which he is summoned from Africa by Pedro de Uzena.
This figure's story is interwoven with an account of Velasquez's philosophical system in Jan Potocki's novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, in which he is summoned from Africa by Pedro de Uzena. The earliest story of this figure is related by an Armenian bishop in Roger of Wendover's Flores Historiarum. A bestselling 1602 pamphlet described Paul von Eitzen's encounter with this figure, who in folklore was thought to shed his skin when he turned 100 and become 30 years old again. The Count of Saint (*) Germain was rumored to be this figure, who was commonly depicted wearing a long beard and holding a purse and a staff. This figure was originally known as Cartaphilus until the Protestant Reformation, when stories began calling him Ahaseurus. The legend of this figure was popular throughout medieval Europe, and held that he was either a shoemaker or a doorman for Pontius Pilate. For 10 points, name this figure who, according to legend, mocked Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion and was cursed to walk the Earth until the Second Coming.
This figure's story is interwoven with an account of Velasquez's philosophical system in Jan Potocki's novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, in which he is summoned from Africa by Pedro de Uzena.
the Wandering Jew [or Buttadeus; or Cartaphilus or Ahaseurus before mentioned]