Death and the Soldier
Death and the Soldier
Death and the Soldier
Death and the Soldier
Another bust from Oleksandr Bilibov by way of Mr Lee's Minis. This one is originally based on a short story by Gogol, but I've very slightly reinterpreted it as the main character from an old folk tale, "Death and the Soldier", in which a soldier ends up with a bag that can hold anything (and which he uses to store Death at one point). At this point in the tale, he has a bag full of devils, which he beats every now and then in order to force a deal out of them. This particular folk tale was included in The Storyteller, which was a show in the late 80s featuring John Hurt narrating folk tales acted out by muppets. Well worth looking up if you're interested.