Leeds Devil?

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Anybody ever hear of the legend and have the thought pop into mind to do a story on it? You know, where the hikers get lost in the woods and the Leeds Devil finds them/they find him and one thing leads to another?

 

[Star of Penumbra]

Anybody ever hear of the legend and have the thought pop into mind to do a story on it? You know, where the hikers get lost in the woods and the Leeds Devil finds them/they find him and one thing leads to another?

Never heard this one.

 

[Monazwx]

Here's what I could find,

http://home.midmaine.com/~lopez/leedsdevil.htm

But I don't know if there's any story here.

 

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The most popular version of the story is that Jane Leeds was pregnant with her thirteenth child and wished that it would be born a devil so she wouldn't have to support and deal with it. (The family was dirt-poor and hardly getting on as it was.) The labor was normal, the baby was born a normal boy, but sprouted horns, a tail, claws, and wings. His body stretched out horribly and his face deformed itself until it looked much like a horse or mule. The baby killed the midwife and escaped into the woods.

There have been reported sightings ever since then - some 250 years - around the area. Many were made by the local authorities and bigwigs, others by people internationally known and respected, and even more by the occasional tourist or passerby.

i just thought it would be a little different to have a story built up around the legend. After all, that's why New Jersey's known, isn't it?

That little devil....

 

[NASCARaddicted]

I am thinking: Her 13th baby was the devil .... I am curious, who made her pregnant ....

 

[Shyjohn]

I... er... think it might have been me. Sorry.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I've heard of the seventh son of a seventh son, but this... How many siblings did her husband have? 12?