(urth) Trial summer project short story: Easter Sunday

[Craig Brewer]

There's a tradition in some medieval texts and late medieval morality plays that the devil limps when he's in disguise because he's got hooves instead of feet. And unless I'm completely wrong, it's not in Milton.



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 From: Sergei SOLOVIEV <soloviev at irit.fr>
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Is there nothing in "Paradise Lost" on this?

Sergei Soloviev

Marc Aramini wrote:
> According to commentary I once read on the Master and Margarita on oil being rubbed into someone's knee, the injured leg of Satan is commonly attributed to his fall from heaven ... but I don't know of a REAL source for this - it isn't biblical as far as I know.
> 
> --- On *Sat, 3/24/12, Gerry Quinn /<gerry at bindweed.com>/* wrote:
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>     From: Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com>
>     Subject: Re: (urth) Trial summer project short story: Easter Sunday
>     To: "Jerry Friedman" <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>, "The Urth Mailing
>     List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
>     Date: Saturday, March 24, 2012, 2:53 PM
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>          Enjoyable enough albeit a bit obvious.  But why does the Devil
>     have a limp?  Is there a tradition here I am unaware of?
>          No doubt Lee will chime in to point out that this means Severian
>     is the Devil Winking smile
>          - Gerry Quinn
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