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The Black Spider is a novella by the Swiss writer Jeremias Gotthelf written in 1842. Set in an idyllic frame story, old legends are worked into a Christian-humanist allegory about ideas of good and evil. Though the novel is initially divided, what is originally the internal story later spills over into the frame story as well. The ...
- Jeremias Gotthelf
- Die Schwarze Spinne
- 1842
- 1842
24. Nov. 2022 · The Black Spider: Directed by Markus Fischer. With Marin Blülle, Philipp Droste, Mária Dér, Marina Gera. The courageous young midwife Christine makes a pact with the devil to save her village from the brutal terror of the Teutonic Knights.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Markus Fischer
- 2022-11-24
Nezznar, also known as the Black Spider, was a drow who was in search of the Forge of Spells in Wave Echo Cave. [1] Nezznar wore a long purple cloak with a red interior, and wielded a black quarterstaff known as a spider staff. [1] He was quite intelligent and curious, and had knowledge of the...
2. Nov. 2015 · Originally published in 1842, The Black Spider is the most celebrated work of Swiss author Jeremias Gotthelf. A 100-page gothic horror novella with bleak, dark religious themes. Like many other gothic works of its time, The Black Spider begins with a framing device: a community in an idyllic Swiss valley are celebrating the baptism ...
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- Paperback
Featuring a cruelly overbearing lord of the manor and the oppressed villagers who must render him service, an irreverent young woman who will stop at nothing, a mysterious stranger with a red beard and a green hat, and, last but not least, the black spider, the tale is as riveting and appalling today as when Jeremias Gotthelf set it down more ...
- Jeremias Gotthelf
- Paperback
30. Okt. 2018 · In a remote Swiss village, a grandfather tells a story during a christening, a tale that portends evil at large in society and provides a vision of cosmic horror.
THE BLACK SPIDER. Emmental in the 13th century: The brave and rebellious midwife Christine enters a pact with the devil to protect her village from the terror of the Teutonic Knights. But punished henceforth with a spider plague, Christine goes from being the saviour to the hunted.
