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The Devil has been a significant part of many people's culture for many years, and in being so significant, has come up in numerous stories. Using Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, I will compare one set of depictions of the devil, to the way William Shakespeare in Othe ....

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.... and goes on demanding, "Let me go with him"3 ; she was talking about Othello and traveling with him to Cyprus. "The Long Spoon" is an Irish folk tale that because of its Catholic roots has the devil included in it. "The Long Spoon" depicts the Devil as no less deceiving, but instead of leading a jilted lover to believe that two others are in love, he convinces a hearth-money collector that the two of them were going out for nothing more than to see, "which would have the best load at sunset."4 The Devil lead this hearth-money collector into thinking that the two of them were going out on a harmless trip to collect food, money, clothes, and livest ....