# Virgil — The Humbugs of the World character guide

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

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** poor Virgil

**First appearance:** 0014-ix

## Who they are

A medieval magician, 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)

Roman poet commonly believed in the Middle Ages to be a great magician; legends attribute to him a brass fly that repelled insects, a brazen head that prophesied, and a failed attempt to regain youth through a pickling ritual.

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