The  great  popularity  of  the  legend  in  this  form  led  to  the
preparation  of  Widmanji^s  larger  and  more  ambitious  work,
which  was  published  at  Hamburg,  nTTsgg;  TTs" title  Is:
"  The  Veritable  History  of  the  hideous  and  abominable  sins


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and  vices,  also  of  many  wonderful  and  strange  adventures,
which  D.  Johannes  Faustus,  a  notorioui.  black-artist  and
arch-sorcerer,  by  means  of  his  black  arr,  committed  even
until  his  terrible  ending.  Fitted  out  ana  expounded  with
necessary  reminders  and  admirable  instances,  for  manifold
instruction  and  warning."  The  story  is  substantially  the
same  as  in  Spiess's  book,  but  many  additionaf  anecdotes  are
inserted,  and  all  the  details  are  amplified.  Instead  of  three
"  disputations  "  between  Faust  and  Mephoslophiles,  there
are  ten,  and  each  is  followed  —  as,  in  fact,  every  chapter  in
the  work  —  by  a  long-wiuded  theological  discourse,  called  a
Reminder  (Erinnerung).  These  Reminders  are  pedantic  and
fiercely  Protestant  in  character  :  no  opportunity  is  let  slip  to
illustrate  the  vices  of  Faust  by  references  to  the  Roman
Church  and  its  Popes.  The  name  of  the  Famulus  is  changed
to  Johann  Wayger,  and  two  or  three  stories,  taken  from
L';ither's  table-talk,  are  arbitrarily  applied  to  Faust ;  whence
the  work  is  not  considered  by  scholars  to  be  so  fair  a  repre-
sentation of  the  popular  traditions  as  that  of  Spiess.
