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- A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, imprisoned until this very moment within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.
- A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.
- The daughter of an emperor, denied nothing, prey to fleeting whims, craving discipline.
- A conjurer possessed by spirits of uncivil character.
- The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.