On this snowy day here in England, I thought I'd share this post about the Devil's Footprints. In 1885, a long meandering trail of marks was left in the snow in Devon. Though they seemed to have been made by a two-legged animal, they resembled hoofprints. They wound through churchyards & across fields, went up the sides of buildings & over roofs, & jumped estuaries - as if the uncanny being who made them had flown. Sometimes they stopped on one side of a haystack & continued on the other, without the hay being disturbed. Elsewhere the creature seemed to have jumped impossibly high walls or wriggled through tiny pipes. The prints went on for between 40 & 100 miles and were reported in the national press. The marks have been blamed on escaped monkeys & kangaroos, on austere Protestants trying to frighten religious rivals, on untethered balloons, UFOs, sea monsters & swans in padded shoes. My article: davidcastleton.net/devils-foot… #folklore #history #weird #gothic #Devon #snow