Stage lights rise on Faustus study.

Ralph and Robin come running in and hide among the furniture.

Immediately they are followed by several raw-skinned demons, midgets of reptilian humanoid form, with female breasts and thrashing snake-like tails, and horns on their heads.

Sparks fly out of their anuses as they fart spluttering sulfurous gases.

They search unsuccessfully for Ralph and Robin and soon depart in a disorganized retreat.

***

The image is Luis Ricardo Faléro’s

“Departure of the Witches” (1878).

Music excerpt is

“That Old Black Magic”

from the album

Cocktails for Two

by Spike Jones,

vintage World War II

American Big Band music...

with a twist.