I almost sold my soul. Yeah, I almost sold my soul to the devil. Hi everyone, I’m Neil
Trigger and In today’s video, I’m going to tell you exactly how to sell your soul
and how I nearly sold my soul to the devil!
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If you’ve ever wanted to be rich, and famous and don’t want to be a phenomenal YouTube
sensation like me, you can do it the easy way by selling your soul!
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Simply visit the crossroads at midnight and ask for beelzebub.
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Okay but seriously… there are apparently loads of celebrities out there who attribute
their success, fame and fortune to selling their soul to the devil. From singers to actors,
and even eccentric spaceshipy trillionaires… you know who you are, Jeff Bezos! There are
literally some people accused of selling their souls to the devil in return for… well…
favours.
Not that kind of favours, you smutty little thing, you!
No no, these favours come in the form of money, fame and all the trappings of success.
You’d have thought, perhaps that tales of selling one’s soul would be kept pretty
hush hush. Especially if it really WAS that easy to become rich and famous. Imagine the
cues at the cross roads. It was bad enough in early 2020, queueing to buy toilet paper!
Around two centuries ago, Italian Violinist, Pagani was accused of having sold his soul
because of his legendary mastery of his instrument.
I said it’s not that kind of channel!
But Paganini was neither the first, nor the last person to be accused of such things.
Some might say that this European folk story of selling one’s soul all began with Johan
Georg Faust.
The protagonist Faust was a legendary figure from Germany between around 1480 and 1540,
though nobody can be certain due to dubious record keeping. Faust was an erudite wordsmith
who had reportedly sold his soul at a crossroads in return for diabolical favours. These favours
were furnished on him by the devil himself and included unlimited knowledge and worldly
pleasures.
Since then, the term Faustian has gained popularity in English as meaning giving up spiritual
values in return for earthly pleasures, power, knowledge or material gain.
Interestingly, Faust didn’t make a deal directly with the devil but he worked through
an agent called Mephistopheles…
Hello sir, I’m here to take your soul mmmmmmmkay?
Not that kind of agent. More like a demon, or a go-between.
In modern times, it was widely suggested that Tommy Johnson, a popular blues musician in
America was thought to have sold his soul to advance his music career.
Johnson died in 1960 but even before Tommy Johnson there was Robert Johnson (no relation),
who had reportedly not only sold his soul, but he also bragged about it, and gave specific
instructions about how and where he did it!
To add quite a heavy weight to these tales of Robert Johnson’s soul trade, Johnson
died in 1938, aged only 27.
Robert Johnson never really achieved much in the way of fame, certainly not super star
international fame… but his skill was certainly very eerie.
A friend of his said that Johnson was a decent harmonica player, but said that his skill
with a guitar was pretty dreadful. The word he used was
“Terrible”
That was, until Robert Johnson went mysteriously missing for a few weeks.
When he came back, he was suddenly in possession of prodigious skill with a guitar, and when
questioned by Son House, a blues man and a contemporary of Johnson, he was told that
Johnson had sold his soul.
Of course, Robert Johnson might have been messing with House to get a good or fun reaction.
Perhaps Johnson had just been practicing for a few weeks, but to go from terrible to this
level of skill, house couldn’t believe it was anything other than a diabolical trade
that could have done it.
Johnson gave a detailed account of how he had taken his guitar with him to the crossroads
of highways 49 and 61 in clarksdale, Mississippi. This is a common theme with such transactions,
apparently, but Johnson claimed that the devil himself returned the guitar, in return for
Johnson’s soul. Given Johnson’s short life, this doesn’t seem like a very good
deal.
Unfortunately, I can’t play a track from Johnson’s repertoire because of YouTube’s
copyright policy. But trust me when I say… it’s eerie… even 80 years later.
So how would you go about selling your soul?
Apparently, that’s actually very very easy.
The instructions are as follows.
Go to the crossroads at midnight Wait for the devil
Sell your soul.
Kinda simple really. Which crossroads? I’m not sure… it seems old scratch isn’t too
fussy. From Germany to America, any old crossroads will do, apparently.
The main issue in the U.K. is that most cross roads have a roundabout plonked on it.
Would anyone like to buy a soul?
So why a crossroads?
Well, according to legend, it could be for any number of reasons. It might be to mock
the Christian cross, it might be as a sign of supplication like at Peter being crucified
on an x shaped cross - though that theory is a bit less believable and others believe
it’s so that souls can’t find their way back. That’s the theory I like.
Personally, I’d be tempted to sell my soul if it were to help someone that I love but
that’s the one thing I wouldn’t be able to do. According to legend, a single act of
redemption like a selfless act of devotion renders the contract null and void.
Woah hold on. I know it was a silly little skit, where I stood on a roundabout… but
Did I almost sell my soul to the devil?
No. And here’s why…
Now I’ve studied contract law at university when I went to law school and I’m not really
sure that the devil would ascribe to these precepts but let me explain.
To have a valid contract under the law of England and wales, we need to have an offer
and acceptance, and clearly the selling of a soul would have that. Then there needs to
be something called consideration and this is a confusing term that basically means changing
position. Both sides need to change their position and since the devil would be giving
you something and you’d be giving your soul, the consideration side of the contract will
be satisfied,
but then there’s the final wheel of the contract car, without which a contract is
void.
That fourth wheel is the intention to create legal relations and I can’t imagine the
devil would be keen to enforce their contract in a court of law.
With that in mind, under the law of England and wales, at least…
It’s impossible to make a contract with the devil. Therefore you cannot sell your
soul, even if you want to.
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