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put to death. In that country belief in the demoniccharacter of the dog seems to have been strong enoughto transmit an influence even to the powerful brain ofGoethe. In Goethes poem, it was when Faust was walking withthe student Wagner that the black Dog appeared, rushingaround them in spiral… … had followed Faust into his study, it assumed a monstrousshape, until changed to a mist, from which Mephistophelessteps forth— the kernel of the brute—in guise of a travel-ling scholar. This is in notable coincidence with thearchaic symbolism of the Dog as the most frequent formof the Lares (fig.…
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