In the Adventure of the German Student, Wolfgang goes to Paris just as the French Revolution was breaking out. In the chaos, Wolfgang commits a horrible atrocity, he sleeps with a dead body. The reason for his vile act was that he was tricked into it by Satan.

For some time, Satan had been for some time manipulating the mind of Wolfgang. As Wolfgang had been studying in Germany, he became very solitude and “his health was impaired, his imagination diseased” (Irving 1). This reveals that Lucifer had been warping Wolfgang’s mind for sometime. Wolfgang was under Satan’s thumb. Furthermore, Satan reanimated a decapitated woman who was earlier sent to the guillotine. Having no knowledge of her death, Wolfgang seduces the beautiful, young lady