''Das Kloster'' ("The

Cloister A cloister (from Latin ''claustrum'', "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church, commonly against ...

"; full title ''Das Kloster. Weltlich und geistlich. Meist aus der ältern deutschen Volks-, Wunder-, Curiositäten-, und vorzugsweise komischen Literatur'' "The Cloister. Profane and sacred. Mostly from older German Popular, Miraculous, Curious and especially Comical Literature") is a collection of magical and occult texts,

chapbook A chapbook is a small publication of up to about 40 pages, sometimes bound with a saddle stitch. In early modern Europe a chapbook was a type of printed street literature. Produced cheaply, chapbooks were commonly small, paper-covered bookl ...

s, folklore, popular

superstition A superstition is any belief or practice considered by non-practitioners to be irrational or supernatural, attributed to fate or magic, perceived supernatural influence, or fear of that which is unknown. It is commonly applied to beliefs an ...

and fairy tales of the

German Renaissance The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which developed from the Italian Renaissance. Many areas of the arts and sciences ...

compiled by Stuttgart antiquarian Johann Scheible in 12 volumes, 1845-1849. Vols. 3, 5 and 11 are dedicated to the Faust legend. Vols. 7, 9 and 12 dealing with topics of folklore and ethnography were written by F. Nork (pseudonym of

Friedrich Korn Friedrich may refer to: Names *Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich'' *Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich'' Other *Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' ...

, 1803–1850). *vol. 1 (1845), 840 pp, ch. 1-4 ''Volksprediger, Moralisten und frommer Unsinn'' *vol. 2 (1846), 1074 pp, ch. 5-8'', Doctor Johann Faust'' *vol. 3 (1846), 1065 pp, ch. 9-12, ''Christoph Wagner, Don Juan Tenorio und verschiedene Schwarzkünstler und Beschwörer'' **9. Christoph Wagner **10. incantation and oracle **11.

Don Juan Tenorio ''Don Juan Tenorio: Drama religioso-fantástico en dos partes'' (Don Juan Tenorio: Religious-Fantasy Drama in Two Parts) is a play written in 1844 by José Zorrilla. It is the more romantic of the two principal Spanish-language literary interpr ...

of Sevilla **12. pacts with the devil, various nigromancers *vol. 4 (1846), 840 pp, ''Der Theuerdank'' by

Thomas Murner Thomas Murner, OFM (24 December 1475c. 1537) was an Alsatian satirist, poet and translator. He was born at Oberehnheim (Obernai) near Strasbourg. In 1490 he entered the Franciscan order, and in 1495 began travelling, studying and then teaching ...

*vol. 5 (1847), 1160 pp, ''Die Sage vom Faust bis zum Erscheinen des ersten Volksbuches, mit Literatur und Vergleichung aller folgenden'' *vol. 6 (1847), 1106 pp, ch. 21-24 ''Die gute alte Zeit'', after the manuscript collection of Wilhelm von Reinöhl *vol. 7 (1847), 1120 pp, F. Nork, ''Der Festkalender, enthaltend die Sinndeute der Monatszeichen, die Entstehungs- und Umbildungsgeschichte von Naturfesten in Kirchenfeste'' (on the

liturgical year The liturgical year, also called the church year, Christian year or kalendar, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in Christian churches that determines when feast days, including celebrations of saints, are to be observed, and whi ...

and its evolution out of pagan festivals) *vol. 8 (1847) 1122pp, ''

Johann Fischart Johann Baptist Fischart (c. 1545 – 1591) was a German satirist and publicist. Biography Fischart was born, probably, at Strasbourg (but according to some accounts at Mainz), in or about the year 1545, and was educated at Worms in the house of ...

's Geschichtsklitterung und aller Praktik Grossmutter'' *vol. 9 (1848), 1078 pp, ch. 33-36, F. Nork, ''Mythologie der Volksfragen und Volksmärchen'' *vol. 10 (1848) 1184 pp, ch. 37-40, ''Johann Fischart's Flöhhatz, Weibertratz, Ehezuchtbüchlein, podagrammisch Trostbüchlein'' etc. **37.-38.

**39.-40.

*vol. 11 (1849), 1222 pp, ''Die Geschichte vom Faust in Reimen'' etc. *vol. 12 (1849), 1188 pp, F. Nork, ''Die Sitten und Gebräuche der Deutschen und ihrer Nachbarvölker'' etc. Scheible also edited the ''Bibliotheca magica (1873–1874).

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