# Cornelius Agrippa — The Humbugs of the World character guide

> Cornelius Agrippa in The Humbugs of the World by P. T. Barnum.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Agrippa

**First appearance:** 0014-ix

## Who they are

A Renaissance magician and occult writer, cited as a historical humbug.

## In the story

### [Magical Humbugs: Virgil, Agrippa, Faustus, and the Devil's Tricks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_humbugs_of_the_world_se/chapters/xxxvi)

Celebrated 16th-century magician from Cologne, said to have a magic glass for showing dead or absent persons, an attendant devil in the form of a black dog, and students who nearly came to grief meddling with his spells.

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