"Fast by hell-gate, and kept the fatal Key, Beneath the design is etched: 'NB: The above performance containing Portraits of the Devil & his Relatives, drawn from the Life, is recommended to Messrs Boydell, Fuselli & the rest of the Proprietors of the Three Hundred & Sixty Five Editions of Milton now publishing, as necessary to be adopted, in their classick Embellishments.' Above and below the design are etched lines from 'Paradise Lost' beginning:Īnd shook a dreadfull dart: what seemd his head On the right are the flames of Hell in which demons are flying smoke fills the background. He wears his Chancellor's wig, his profile and eyebrow are of a terrifying fierceness serpents twine round his shield, and spit fire at Pitt and the Queen a serpent entwined in Pitt's crown, and others in the Queen's snaky locks, retaliate. Thurlow has wings, and is naked except for a quasi-Roman kilt. Behind him, and guarding the gate of Hell which is indicated by a stone arch, is Cerberus, with the profile heads of Dundas, Grenville, and Richmond, looking up at Thurlow their body terminates in a large serpent with a barbed tail. His face expresses alarm and determination. Pitt s naked body is emaciated and corpse-like from his shoulders hangs a long ermine-trimmed cloak his sceptre radiates darts of lightning. She is a hideous hag with pendent breasts from her snaky hair hangs a large key inscribed 'The Instrument of all our Woe', and evidently symbolizing Secret Influence, cf. The Queen, as Sin, naked, with snaky locks, and two writhing serpents for legs, interposes with outstretched arms, looking with terrified face at Thurlow in her desire to protect Pitt. Thurlow (right) is Satan he raises the (breaking) mace to smite, and holds out an oval shield decorated with the bag of the Great Seal and a tiny woolsack. Pitt (left) is Death, wearing the king's crown and using a long sceptre as a weapon. In 1996, it was reported that Berlin-based Cosmic Comics had created a character "JD" based on the Jersey Devil who protects the environment and searches for truth.A satire on the struggle between Pitt and Thurlow travestied as a scene from 'Paradise Lost'. In 1973, he gained nationwide attention after a feature film was made entitled "The Legend of Boggy Hollow". Comparisons have been made between the Devil, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Abominable Snowman. Servicemen from the Vietnam War era have said the Devil is an anti-war symbol. In fact, the Devil had not been known to harm anyone or break any local ordinances. The farther north you go in New Jersey, the more benevolent the stories of the Devil become. Early folk belief was often at odds with religious or scientific doctrine of the period. Devil lore began in the region about 1735 shortly after Ben Franklin's fictitious story in the Pennsylvania Gazette about a Burlington County witchcraft trial. The Devil's form has been suggested to be the blending of human and devil, as are gothic gargoyles. Its ferocity when cornered is well documented and it gyrates when flying. For publicity purposes, they created a Devil - from a kangaroo painted with green stripes adding a set of false wings.Ī later theory: Was the creature a sandy hill crane? The crane stands four feet high and is about fifteen pounds. The reward remains uncollected.Īnimal trainers at the Arch Street Museum in Philadelphia had their own idea. Carson, of the Philadelphia Zoo, offered a $10,000 reward for the Devil's capture. Was it an extinct fissiped? However, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia could not locate any record of a living of dead species resembling the Jersey Devil. Had the creature survived in nearby limestone caves? Was it a pterodactyl or a peleosaurus? New York scientists thought it to be a marsupial carnivore. Reportedly, science professors from Philadelphia and experts from the Smithsonian Institution thought the Devil to be a prehistoric creature from the Jurassic period. After the 1909 appearances, the scientific community was asked for possible explanations.
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