Seven Heads, Ten Horns: The History of the Devil

Klaus Yoder & Travis Stevens

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Seven Heads, Ten Horns: The History of the Devil Podcast

Concepts and legends about the Devil and other personifications of evil in religion, literature, and pop culture.

28 FEB

S 4.8 Hildegard of Bingen with Dr. Beverly Mayne Kienzle

This week we interview Dr. Beverly Mayne Kienzle about the visionary preacher and medieval abbess, Hildegard of Bingen. Join us to learn more about the tone-deaf devil from the 12th century as we explore the sermons, art, and visions of Hildegard.

1h 10m
25/11/2023

S 4.7 Adieu, Adrian: Mann's Doktor Faustus, pt. 2

What is the secularized, capitalistic, art-world equivalent to being torn limb-from-limb by the devil? Find out in our concluding episode on Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus. -English translation of Mann’s Doktor Faustus -Danny Riley, “Interpreting Joy: A Guide to Interpreting Beethoven’s Ninth”

1h 9m
23/10/2023

S 4.6 Catholic Horror with Matthew J. Cressler

In observance of the spooky season we're posting our conversation with historian Matthew J. Cressler on the relationship between Catholicism and horror cinema. We explore the sub-genre of Catholic Horror through our analysis of two recent films centering on the Italian exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth (1925-2016): William Friedkin’s (!) documentary The Devil and Father Amorth (2017) and Julius Avery’s horror/dramedy/superhero film The Pope’s Exorcist (2023). The conversation was enlightening and just a delight. Please be on the lookout for all of Matthew’s great work on Catholicism and horror: “The Netflix Series That Should Make Religious People Uncomfortable” The Atlantic, 10/25/21 (on Midnight Mass) “Exorcists, Abusers, and When Catholic History is Horror” The Revealer, 05/10/22 “You Can’t Have a Catholic Imagination without Horror” U.S. Catholic, 10/28/22 And the man’s making comics about this at Bad Catholics / Good Trouble !

1h 50m
11/10/2023

S 4.5 ‘Doktor Faustus, I presume?’ Thomas Mann pt. 1

This episode: we can’t leave well enough alone — another literary elaboration of the Faust legend by a member of the Mann family, Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus (1947.) We discuss: why learning is actually interesting to young people, the problems with studying theology and the humanities, why the devil owns music, whether committing yourself to creative excellence always means a deal with the devil, and what you’re not allowed to say about hell. English translation of Mann’s Doktor Faustus The “Jeremy Brett” version of Love’s Labor’s Lost.

1h 27m
02/09/2023

S 4.4 Klaus Mann's Mephisto

Three Klauses walk into a bar… This episode centers on literary wunderkind/prodigal son Klaus Mann’s attack on Nazi Germany (and an ex-lover, and possibly his dad, the canonical novelist Thomas Mann), in the form of the 1936 novel Mephisto. We discuss the film adaptation, what it means to compare demons to the Nazis, the book’s relationship to Goethe’s Faust, and the politics of race in the novel/film. -Klaus Mann, Mephisto: Ein Roman einer Karriere -Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark -Farayi Mungazi and Olivia Marks-Woldman “Black people were Hitler’s victims too – that must not be forgotten” -“Nazi Persecution of Black People in Germany,” Holocaust Encyclopedia (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -Colm Tóibín: “I Could Sleep With All Of Them” (On Mann family dynamics in London Review of Books)

1h 7m
16/08/2023

S 4.3 Beyond Black

Hilary Mantel's 2005 novel Beyond Black is the topic of discussion for this episode, continuing our series on devil-themed novels. This one's about psychics and their demons in neo-liberal Britain on the eve of Brexit. -An interview Mantel did on this novel for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. -The Guardian's obituary for Mantel from September 2022. -Etymology of "Old Nick"

1h 10m
28/07/2023

S 4.2 The Devil Rides Out!

Summer is for trashy beach novels and Dennis Wheatley's 1934 The Devil Rides Out definitely qualifies. We discuss problematic genre fiction, fake rituals, the rhetorical trap of being asked "do you believe in evil?" and racial demonology of the late British empire. Some useful scholarship: Timothy Jones, "The Black Mass as Play: Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out" M/C Journal, 17(4).

1h 11m
11/06/2023

S 4.1 This Present Snarkiness

The boys are back to discuss Frank E. Peretti's 1986 Christian supernatural thriller This Present Darkness.

1h 7m

17/12/2021

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17/12/2021

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Concepts and legends about the Devil and other personifications of evil in religion, literature, and pop culture.

Creator

Klaus Yoder & Travis Stevens
Years Active

2020 - 2024
Episodes

78
Rating

Explicit
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© Klaus Yoder and Travis Stevens
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Seven Heads, Ten Horns: The History of the Devil