page_title: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: Der Struwwelpeter: Die Geschichte von den schwarzen Buben Tafel 3 Deutsch: „Der Niklas wurde bös und wild, Du siehst es hier auf diesem Bild!“
context_page_description: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim was a German polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, theologian, and occult writer. He is considered one of the most influential occultists of the early modern period. His book on the occult Three Books of Occult Philosophy was published in 1533, but was condemned as heretical by the inquisitor of Cologne. His work drew heavily upon the influences of Kabbalah, Hermeticism and neo-Platonism.
context_section_description: In Christopher Marlowe's late 16th century play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, where Faustus decides to study necromancy and proclaims he will become "as cunning as Agrippa was" (Act 1, Scene 1, Line 119).
  In Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, his writings, along with those of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus, are listed as influences on a young Victor Frankenstein.
  Appears as a character in Mary Shelley's 1833 short story The Mortal Immortal.
  Appears in Søren Kierkegaard's 1845 book Stages on Life's Way.
  In most English translations of Struwwelpeter (1847), "Great Agrippa" replaces Saint Nicholas as the sage in "The Story of the Inky Boys", chastising three white children for tormenting a black youth because of the colour of his skin.  When they ignore his advice, Agrippa dips all three in his giant inkwell, until they are blacker than the boy they were teasing.
  Agrippa is a character in Valery Bryusov's 1908 novel The Fiery Angel and the opera by Sergei Prokofiev based on the novel.
  In Zork Nemesis, a 1996 game with alchemy as its main theme, one of the primary instances is called "Temple of Agrippa".
  The 1997 novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone mentions a collectible card of Agrippa.
  Alongside his student Johann Weyer, Agrippa appears as a character  in the 2010 video game Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
  Both of the video games Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets feature a collectible card of Cornelius Agrippa with his real birth and death years (his card is bronze in the second game).
  Appears as the Wizard character that mentors the protagonist Max August in Steve Englehart's The Point Man 1981, with a reference to his pet dog that dies in the Rhone River.
  In Alan Moore's Jerusalem, Alma Warren is preoccupied with matters of the occult. She studies Agrippa as well as other occult heavyweights. [Book 3 Chapter 2 "A Cold and Frosty Morning"].
  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa is a character in High School DxD, being one of the real life historical figures who were reincarnated into devils, serving the Gremory Devil Noble Family.
  Gordan Agrippa, of the House Agrippa, from Black Clover. His Family is notorious for its curse magic. His family shares the same surname.
  Agrippa is mentioned in the lyrics of Born to Night, a Primordial song featured on the Where Greater Men Have Fallen album.
caption: Agrippa (Saint Nicholas in the original) dipping the naughty boys in his inkwell—an early lesson in racial tolerance.
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