Mowing-Devil
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The Mowing-Devil: or, Strange News out of Hartford-shire is the title of an English woodcut pamphlet published in 1678.
The pamphlet tells of a farmer who, refusing to pay the price demanded by a labourer to mow his field, swore that he would rather that the Devil mowed it instead.
According to the pamphlet, that night his field appeared to be in flame. The next morning, the field was found to be perfectly mowed - unnaturally perfect, in fact.
This pamphlet, and the accompanying illustration, is often cited by crop circle reasearchers as among the first recorded cases of crop circles.[1]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Monaghan, Lauren (August 2009). "Grand delusions". Cosmos (magazine). http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/3114/full. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
[edit] External links
- Swirled News article
