Jersey Devil

I thought of the reporter's story, but there would be time to contribute my data presently after Lessing had told me all that he knew.

Did you ever hear of an apparition called the Jersey Devil? he asked.

I don't remember it.

You probably wouldn't, Lessing replied.

He took a fresh cigarette from the box and lit it.

The tale afforded some stray paragraphs in the papers at different times, much as the periodical accounts of authentic ghosts do, but I don't believe anyone gave the slightest credence to it.

The Jersey Devil, to sum up all that I have been able to glean on the subject, was a legendary monster reputed to have been seen on the evidence of several persons at different periods during the past fifty or sixty years.

The legend goes back, I believe, to just before the Civil War.

Others have a definite origin story.

The Jersey Devil was alleged to be the devil spawn of a cursed mother.

Death Valley's Borax Man was a giant Chinese laborer horribly scalded in a vat of boiling Borax.

The Algonquian Wendigo is an ordinary human guilty of greed and is punished by transformation into a skeletal cannibal.

Okay, so now...

We got the Snallygaster against the Jersey Devil.

So the Snallygaster, typically described as a mythical dragon-like half-reptile, half-bird creature with a metallic beak, sharp razor teeth, steel-hooked claws, massive wings, and octopus tentacles with a singular eye in the center of its forehead, can swoop silently from the skies to carry off its victims to devour their blood.

In 1730, so how it came about history was in 1730, a German community was terrorized by a monster called the Schneller Geist.

This creature seemed to have been invented by the staff of a small Western Maryland newspaper, which has a bordered state that permitted slavery but never joined the Confederacy.

Maryland weaponized the superstitions to terrorize and control the black communities in the early 1900s.

so what's so badass about it well this was a monster that was created that truly called out racism within america so i think she's telling the truth now the jersey devil is described to be very dragon-like, but with some differences by having hooves, sometimes two different sized hooves, bird-like legs, a snake's tail, bat wings, and a head that looks sort of like a horse.

It can also breathe fire or poison water with its breath.