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Freischütz
A Freischütz (''"freeshooter"''),〔''Grove Dictionary of Music''.〕 in German folklore, is a marksman who, by a contract with the devil, has obtained a certain number of bullets destined to hit without fail whatever object he wishes. As the legend is usually told, six of the magic bullets (German: ''Freikugeln'', literally "free bullets"), are thus subservient to the marksman's will, but the seventh is at the absolute disposal of the devil himself.
==Apel's Freischütz==
Stories about the Freischütz were especially common in Germany during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries.〔 Elizabeth Knowles The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable - 2006 "German folklore includes a number of stories in which magic bullets of supernatural accuracy play a prominent role. The best-known is the legend of a marksman or 'freeshooter' who makes a pact with the powers of evil to obtain bullets which ..."〕 But the tale became widely circulated in 1811 when Johann August Apel included it as the first tale in the first volume of the ''Gespensterbuch'' or ''Book of Ghosts''. Thomas de Quincey translated Apel's tale into English in 1823 as ''The Fatal Marksman''.〔Patrick Bridgwater De Quincey's Gothic Masquerade -- 2004 Page 55 The Fatal Marksman is not a Gothic tale as such, but a reworking of the folk legend that underlies Weber's opera, which ... Magic bullets, magic guns, and the idea that the Devil cannot be shot are well-known folklore motifs, but there is more to ...〕
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