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coined and popularised by Goethe. Shakespeare used the name in the form of Mephistophilus, using the Latin version philus instead of the Greek philês. Mephistopheles was not previously part of the traditional magical or demonological lore, but is a new coinage by a Rennaissance humanist drawing upon Greek and Latin. In the play, Doctor Faustus (1604), created by Christopher

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