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I have a theory that Cora could possible be also Faust.
The first time I’ve thought about it was after I saw the Book of Spells in “We are Both”.
I’ve looked on the sysmbols and searched on the web for it. And I’ve found some of them on this site.
These are alchemistic symbols which is not so much suprising. They are very common to use them for spell books and grimoires. And just because Faust was an alchemist and is often connected beeing a writer of some grimoires named “Höllenzwang” I thought she could be him. ^^’
Well, but after I watched the talk between Rumple and Cora inside his Shop, I really think that she is possibly a female Faust and Rumple is Mephistopheles.
I mean, we know Rumple teached her witchcraft and she called him “Master”. And we know that they usually sealed their Deals with a kiss.
And I don’t know where this came from but I really often saw that whole Seal-a-deal-with-a-kiss-thing in connection with a deal with the devil. But also I know that the people believed that witches got their power by making a deal with a devil. And that they mostly have some kind of sexual relation with demons.I know Wikipedia is not the best source of all but I’ve just found something on the Deal-with-the-Devil-article.
It was usually thought that the person who had made a pact also promised the demon to kill children or consecrate them to the Devil at the moment of birth (many midwives were accused of this, due to the number of children who died at birth in the Middle Ages and Renaissance), take part in Sabbaths, have sexual relations with demons, and sometimes engender children from a succubus, or incubus in the case of women.
That reminds me about the original Rumplestilskin story.
And I guess it could fit. I mean in the original Rumplestilskin story the miller’s daughter has to find out his real name. But how did she called him first? The Dark One, Master or maybe Mephistopheles?What do you think about this theory?
[adrotate group="5"]“There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.”
— from the Neverending Story by Michael EndeA very interesting theory. I like it! Since there are also elements of Faust in both Rumple and Dr. Frankenstein, they may be spreading Goethe’s influence among several characters.
Well, it mustn’t be Goethe’s inlfuence. Faust is from German folklore and is based on the historical Dr. Johann Georg Faust, an alchemist who accidental blowed himself up in c. 1540.
“There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.”
— from the Neverending Story by Michael Ende
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