The  growth  and  terrible  appearance  of  the  poodle  suggest
a  passage  in  Neumann's  "  Curious  Observations  concerning
the  so-called  Dr.  Faust  "  (1702).  He  says,  on  the  authority
of  Wier,  the  pupil  of  Cornelius  Agrippa  :  "  A  schoolmaster
of  Gosslar  had  learned  from  Faust,  the  magician,  the  formula
by  which  certain  verses  may  be  used  to  imprison  the  Devil
in  a  glass.  In  order  that  he  might  not  risk  being  inter-
rupted, he  went  one  day  into  a  forest ;  and  while  he  was  in
the  midst  of  his  invocations,  the  Devil  came  unto  him  in  a
horrible  form,  with  fiery  eyes,  a  nose  curved  like  a  cow's
horn,  with  wild  and  fearful  boar's-tusks,  a  rough  cat's  back,
and  every  way  frightful."

One  of  the  illustrations  in  Widmann's  book  represents
Mephistopheles  appearing  to  Faust  in  front  of  the  stove  in
the  latter's  study,  and  conversing  with  him  over  the  top  of  a


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fire-screen.     The  text  says  that  Faust  first  became  aware  of
the  sj^irit  as  a  shadow  moving  around  the  stove.
47.  The  Key  of  Solomon  is  good.
