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The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster

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Legend has it that in 1735, a witch named Mother Leeds gave birth to a horrifying monster―a deformed flying horse with glowing red eyes―that flew up the chimney of her New Jersey home and disappeared into the Pine Barrens. Ever since, this nightmarish beast has haunted those woods, presaging catastrophe and frightening innocent passersby―or so the story goes. In The Secret History of the Jersey Devil, Brian Regal and Frank J. Esposito examine the genesis of this popular myth, which may be one of the vital oldest monster legends in the USA.

According to Regal and Esposito, everything you think you know about the Jersey Devil is flawed. The real story of the Jersey Devil’s birth is far more interesting, complex, and important than most of the people―believers and skeptics alike―realize. Leaving the Pine Barrens, Regal and Esposito turn as a substitute to the varied political and cultural roots in the back of the Devil’s creation. Fascinating and lively, this book finds the origins of New Jersey’s favorite monster not in witchcraft or an unnatural liaison between woman and devil but in the bare-knuckled political fights and non secular upheavals of colonial The us. A product of innuendo and rumor, in addition to scandal and media hype, the Jersey Devil enjoys a rich history involving land grabs, astrological predictions, mermaids and dinosaur bones, sideshows, Napoleon Bonaparte’s brother, a cross-dressing royal governor, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

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