Post by Abraxas on May 16, 2011 12:24:18 GMT -5
The following information contains fact and ideas which do not fit the Jersey Devil legend, and/or are inaccurate and unlikely.
1. In the earliest tales associated with the Jersey Devil, the superstitious mindset of the eighteenth century is prominently accented with tales of the Jersey Devil spiriting off with children, family pets, and farm animals. None of the allegedly abducted children were ever found, but what remained of the missing animals was said to have been found scattered through out the Pine Barrens. Citizens of the area feared that the Jersey Devil would "carry off anything that moved" and a handful of the men in these communities banded together to form armed patrols to stand watch over the flocks and herds of local farm animals in hopes that it would discourage further attacks from the "Devil".
2. Brief tour of southern New York by paying visits to Hyena Lake. Growing hysteria led to speculation at this time that the creature was not only capable of walking and flying, but possibly was an adept swimmer as well.
3. Later in the day, two professional muskrat hunters were reported to have followed the creature for several miles, but lost the trail of footprints. They reported that the creature had apparently jumped over five foot high walls and incredibly made its way past gaps only eight inches in height. According to many well versed in the legends of the Jersey Devil, no plausible explanation has ever been made to explain the mysterious trail of tacks.
4. A priest exorcised the Jersey Devil for 100 years, after sporadically sighings of the Jersey Devil throughout 1735-1740, using a ritula known as BELL, BOOK, AND CANDLE, the fact is that this is not acytualy an an excorcism. It is in fact an excumminication. What's more, it isn't intended to permanently separate you from the church; rather, it's a "medicinal" procedure, meant to make you see the error of your ways.
Codex Juris Canonici. As revised in 1983 there are nine grounds for excommunication--physical attack on the pope, "violating the sacred species," procuring an abortion, etc.... all a little drastic.
(THE RITE)
The priest stood at the altar, which held the mass book, a bell, and a burning candle. First, he read the sentence of excommunication from the book. "We separate him, together with his accomplices and abettors, from the precious body and blood of the Lord and from the society of all Christians; we exclude him from our holy mother the church in heaven and on earth; we declare him excommunicate and anathema; we judge him damned, with the devil and his angels and all the reprobate, to eternal fire until he shall recover himself from the toils of the devil and return to amendment and to penitence."
Next he rang the bell, symbolically announcing the excommunicates "death". Finally he blew out the candle, "snuffing out" the sinner.
5. A case against the Jersey Devil's violent and carnivorous nature
6. Creating the wildcat hysteria that gripped Vineland and neighboring Pittsgrove in 1987. Several dogs were killed, one with its heart and liver ripped out, and another with its gut eviscerated and intestines eaten. The haunches of a horse were mauled. A big animal reportedly tried to break into a house. Police initially thought a wild dog was loose, but later said the attacks couldn't have been made by a dog. Although she never saw or heard the animal herself, Steineder was part of a group of about 30 local residents that patrolled the woods and swamps along the Maurice River with night binoculars and tranquilizer guns, hoping to capture the animal.
Though there might not be any wild cats or cougars in the Pinelands this does bring up a very interesting point. This is one thing that a lot of people fail to mention in their desire to prove the existence of the Jersey Devil based on their own personal opinions. The fact is that there are predatory animals around the region in which the Jersey Devil has been known to appear.
1. In the earliest tales associated with the Jersey Devil, the superstitious mindset of the eighteenth century is prominently accented with tales of the Jersey Devil spiriting off with children, family pets, and farm animals. None of the allegedly abducted children were ever found, but what remained of the missing animals was said to have been found scattered through out the Pine Barrens. Citizens of the area feared that the Jersey Devil would "carry off anything that moved" and a handful of the men in these communities banded together to form armed patrols to stand watch over the flocks and herds of local farm animals in hopes that it would discourage further attacks from the "Devil".
2. Brief tour of southern New York by paying visits to Hyena Lake. Growing hysteria led to speculation at this time that the creature was not only capable of walking and flying, but possibly was an adept swimmer as well.
3. Later in the day, two professional muskrat hunters were reported to have followed the creature for several miles, but lost the trail of footprints. They reported that the creature had apparently jumped over five foot high walls and incredibly made its way past gaps only eight inches in height. According to many well versed in the legends of the Jersey Devil, no plausible explanation has ever been made to explain the mysterious trail of tacks.
4. A priest exorcised the Jersey Devil for 100 years, after sporadically sighings of the Jersey Devil throughout 1735-1740, using a ritula known as BELL, BOOK, AND CANDLE, the fact is that this is not acytualy an an excorcism. It is in fact an excumminication. What's more, it isn't intended to permanently separate you from the church; rather, it's a "medicinal" procedure, meant to make you see the error of your ways.
Codex Juris Canonici. As revised in 1983 there are nine grounds for excommunication--physical attack on the pope, "violating the sacred species," procuring an abortion, etc.... all a little drastic.
(THE RITE)
The priest stood at the altar, which held the mass book, a bell, and a burning candle. First, he read the sentence of excommunication from the book. "We separate him, together with his accomplices and abettors, from the precious body and blood of the Lord and from the society of all Christians; we exclude him from our holy mother the church in heaven and on earth; we declare him excommunicate and anathema; we judge him damned, with the devil and his angels and all the reprobate, to eternal fire until he shall recover himself from the toils of the devil and return to amendment and to penitence."
Next he rang the bell, symbolically announcing the excommunicates "death". Finally he blew out the candle, "snuffing out" the sinner.
5. A case against the Jersey Devil's violent and carnivorous nature
6. Creating the wildcat hysteria that gripped Vineland and neighboring Pittsgrove in 1987. Several dogs were killed, one with its heart and liver ripped out, and another with its gut eviscerated and intestines eaten. The haunches of a horse were mauled. A big animal reportedly tried to break into a house. Police initially thought a wild dog was loose, but later said the attacks couldn't have been made by a dog. Although she never saw or heard the animal herself, Steineder was part of a group of about 30 local residents that patrolled the woods and swamps along the Maurice River with night binoculars and tranquilizer guns, hoping to capture the animal.
Though there might not be any wild cats or cougars in the Pinelands this does bring up a very interesting point. This is one thing that a lot of people fail to mention in their desire to prove the existence of the Jersey Devil based on their own personal opinions. The fact is that there are predatory animals around the region in which the Jersey Devil has been known to appear.