“On a dark and stormy night sometime in 1735, a Quaker woman gave birth to a child”(Johnson and Munn 1). This child would be cursed by its mother for it to be the devil, “or more specifically ‘let it be the Devil!’ ”(Parkes). When the Devil was born it changed to have a kangaroo-like body with the face of a goat; it had bat-like wings, a forked tail, horns, and hooves. “After being born, the child changed into a Devil and as it flew away into the night it killed the midwife that helped birth it”(Parkes). As Johnson and Munn stated, “Mother Leeds is said to have had as many as 12 children before the devil, which lets some say that she cursed it from dire straits”(1). There are many other origins of the Devil such as, “A young woman would not give food to a begging gypsy and the gypsy cursed her so that her first child would become a devil”(Johnson and Munn 1). …show more content…
“The Devil was born in the Pine Barrens, which spreads across 1700 square miles in southern New Jersey”(Johnson and Munn 1). The Devil has inhabited the area since as far back as before the Revolutionary War. To be more exact it surrounds the town of Leeds Point, but “has Black 2 since moved on to surrounding areas and beyond”(Parkes). There are times when the Jersey Devil was thought to be gone, but it always comes back home. “The Jersey Devil feasted upon cattle and sheep of the land and later moved on to terrorize people with its scream of terror”(Parkes). People would run away from it when they encountered it and find places to hide from it so it would go away. “Because of the Jersey Devil: crops would fail, droughts went through the Pine Barrens, cows would give sour milk, streams would boil, and the tops of trees would be blown off”(Johnson and Munn 2). “It is also said that the Devil could also tell when a disaster or war would occur”(Johnson Munn
Tom Walker comes across the devil when walking through the woods on his way home. The devil reels Tom Walker in by speaking of money hidden away, the devil tells Tom Walker he can help him obtain the money on certain terms. We know Tom Walker is greedy because on page three hundred and fourteen, lines seventeen through twenty two, "...there lived near this place a meager, miserly fellow, the name of Tom Walker. He had a wife as miserly as himself: they even conspired to cheat each other. ..
The devil's trees in the swamp represent the souls of people who are "rotten to the core," many of them town leaders or religious leaders who appear to be good but are actually terrible sinners. In the story, the devil says that soon Peabody will be defiled or taken by the devil. There are many trees that have been hit with the ax. This most likely means that most "great men" are not completely virtuous. This is why I think the devil trees in the swamp
Despite their deeply religious values, the members of the Puritan Society in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible are equally as sinful as the rest of the world. The Puritans, known for turning to God when given any matter at hand, lay blame on the Devil, regardless of their contradictory values. By blaming on him for their wrongdoings, the Devil earns power through the Puritans restoring to involve him whenever any one thing goes wrong. Power is defined by one’s reputation, status, wealth, gender, and age; although the natural deciding factor of one’s power in the Puritan society is land, the Devil himself holds ultimate power. Despite the fact that he does not appear as a human figure, he controls the thoughts and actions of the Puritan society, serving as the ultimate threat.
Mother Leeds lived in Pine Barrens in poverty. The year 1735 came by, Mother Leeds found that she was pregnant with her 13th child. She believed this child would be the Devil’s child, and she wasn’t far off. When her baby was born, he seemed just fine. But he soon had a horrifying appearance, like
Washington Irving was the author of “The Devil and Tom Walker”, in his early life he began to study to be a lawyer, but soon falling away from that finding he had more interest in traveling and writing. Irving’s work including, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle”, became known as an important part of American heritage today. The setting was in New England, the year 1727, just at the time that earthquakes were prevaled. Around the area of where Tom Walker had lived with his wife, Tom had found an old Indian fort which he chose to rest at on his way homeward. The main characters in “The Devil and Tom Walker” are obviously the Devil, “a great black man...neither Negro nor Indian” and Tom Walker who was a “miserly fellow”.
A dust devil is a small whirlwind, or air vortex, on land. Visible as a column of dust and debris. A dust devil forms when the air is clear and hot, which can set a situation, where one part of the ground, like dark asphalt of a parking lot, heats up faster than the ground around the asphalt. Dust from something like a baseball field may heat faster than the grass that is possibly around the baseball field. Which then, the moisture in the dirt combines in the air, and seems like it is chasing the warm air around in a circle.
“The Devil and Tom Walker” written by Washington Irving, is a story that takes place in New England in the 1720’s. A major part of the story is satire as it is displayed all throughout the work. Satire is writing that ridicules or criticizes. Religion, marriage, and the white establishment are three different elements of society that are criticized throughout the story with satire. Religion and religious types are criticized through satire by Irving in the story.
The years of 1692 and 1693 were a terrible time in Salem Massachusetts. The presence of the devil was in Salem. People living there were practicing witchcraft. Young women were barking like dogs and acting strangely. All this behavior would lead to what became known as the Salem witch trials.
In the Stephen King short story, The Man in The Black Suit, the narrator Gary recounts an experience from his childhood that scared him permanently. When he was nine, Gary was tormented and stalked though the woods by the devil, who manifested himself after Gary wandered into the woods. During their interaction, the Devil lies to Gary and says that his mother just died at home. The Devil claimed that Gary’s mother was killed in a similar way that his brother, Dan, was also killed not too long ago, as she was apparently stung by a bee and is dead in his kitchen. Gary knows the Devil is a liar but finds it difficult to resist believing him.
The Scottsboro Trails and the Salem Witch Trials compare and contrast in many ways. Both outcomes result in mass death and heartache due to hysteria. However the reasoning for these false accusing seem to differ. Nine young men were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train near Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931.
Did you know that you had to believe in God and the Devil and if you only believed in the devil they considered you as a witch. In 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts people were accused of witchcraft and some were hanged. A respected man named Cotton Mather wrote something about devils and witches walking the earth.
Reagan Carter Period 4 Devil in the White City Reading Log The "Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson is a nonfiction novel that reveals the chaos of Chicago. The novel mostly takes place in Chicago around 1890-1893 while towards the end of the novel it takes place in 1895 Philadelphia. Larson recreated two men that would live in Chicago. The two men will have different plots and will each provide a meaning in one another.
Cotton Mather: Wonders of the Invisible World In this writing, Cotton Mather, a Puritan Theologian and a renowned reverend talks about his fears of the Christian religion being slowly obliterated from the country, which he believes is being taken over by the devil and his minions by the use of Witchcraft. In 1963 Cotton Mather was asked to create a literary piece, in defense of the persecutions, one year after the events of the Salem witch trials actually took place, where questionable events happened were depicted. This work was called the Invisible Wonders of the World. Throughout the writing, Mather is always depicting the devil as a real and tangible being (e.g. “invisible hands” and supernatural happenings).
As written by Arthur Miller, “the Devil [works] again (...) just as he [works] within the Slav who is shocked at (...) a woman’s disrobing herself in a burlesque show. Our opposites are always robed in sexual sin, and it is from this unconscious conviction that demonology”. The Devil “gains both its attractive sensuality and its capacity to infuriate and frighten,” which displays the control he holds over the society in that he can lure in a pure soul, but frighten one as well
Power, the ability to maintain control, command, or authority over others can often be determined by one’s reputation and his or her persuasiveness. This principle is displayed within The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller, in which follows the town of Salem, Massachusetts attempting to navigate through a “Witchcraft” outbreak supposedly lead by the Devil. Within such a theocratic society such as Salem, the Devil is often associated with death, fear, and uncertainty. While his name alone is often believed to be able to influence others in to following through in certain actions. The Devil, as a key figure behind the immense “witchcraft” occurring in Salem, is crafted by Miller as the most influential “character” due to his infamous reputation and his ability to control characters’ actions.