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Devil's Footprints

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The Devil's Footprints was a phenomenon that occurred during February 1855 around the Exe Estuary in East and South Devon, England. [1]

50 relations: Badger, Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, Charles Fort, Cloven hoof, Clyst St George, Congress Poland, Conservatory (greenhouse), Dark Was the Night (film), Dawlish, Devonshire Association, Dorset, East Devon, Exe Estuary, Exmouth, Footprint, Galicia (Eastern Europe), Geoffrey Household, Heidelberg, Henry Thomas Ellacombe, HMNB Devonport, Hoax, Honiton, Hoof, Jersey Devil, Joe Nickell, Kangaroo, Lincolnshire, Mass hysteria, Mike Dash, New Jersey, Notes and Queries, Phantom kangaroo, Primary source, Richard Owen, Rodent, Satan, Secondary source, South Australian Register, South Devon, Teignmouth, The Book of the Damned, The Great Thunderstorm, The Illustrated London News, The Times, Topsham, Devon, Torquay, Totnes, Urban legend, Weymouth, Dorset, Wood mouse.

Badger

Badgers are short-legged omnivores in the family Mustelidae, which also includes the otters, polecats, weasels, and wolverines.

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Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, also published as Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle, was a weekly English language newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia between 1845 and 1872.

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Charles Fort

Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932) was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena.

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Cloven hoof

A cloven hoof, cleft hoof, divided hoof or split hoof is a hoof split into two toes.

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Clyst St George

Clyst St George (anciently Clyst Champernowne) is a village in East Devon, England, adjoining the River Clyst some south east of Exeter and north of Exmouth.

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Congress Poland

The Kingdom of Poland, informally known as Congress Poland or Russian Poland, was created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a sovereign state of the Russian part of Poland connected by personal union with the Russian Empire under the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland until 1832.

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Conservatory (greenhouse)

A conservatory is a building or room having glass or tarpaulin roofing and walls used as a greenhouse or a sunroom.

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Dark Was the Night (film)

Dark Was the Night (released as Monster Hunter in the UK) is a 2014 American thriller film directed and produced by Jack Heller, and written by Tyler Hisel.

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Dawlish

Dawlish is an English seaside resort town and civil parish in Teignbridge on the south coast of Devon, from the county town of Exeter.

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Devonshire Association

The Devonshire Association (DA) is a learned society founded in 1862 by William Pengelly and modelled on the British Association, but concentrating on research subjects linked to Devon in the fields of science, literature and the arts.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast.

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East Devon

East Devon is a local government district in Devon, England.

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Exe Estuary

The Exe estuary is an estuary on the south coast of Devon, England.

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Exmouth

Exmouth is a port town, civil parish and seaside resort, sited on the east bank of the mouth of the River Exe.

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Footprint

Footprints are the impressions or images left behind by a person walking or running.

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Galicia (Eastern Europe)

Galicia (Ukrainian and Галичина, Halyčyna; Galicja; Czech and Halič; Galizien; Galícia/Kaliz/Gácsország/Halics; Galiția/Halici; Галиция, Galicija; גאַליציע Galitsiye) is a historical and geographic region in Central Europe once a small Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia and later a crown land of Austria-Hungary, the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, that straddled the modern-day border between Poland and Ukraine.

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Geoffrey Household

Geoffrey Edward West Household (30 November 1900 — 4 October 1988) was a prolific British novelist who specialised in thrillers.

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Heidelberg

Heidelberg is a college town in Baden-Württemberg situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany.

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Henry Thomas Ellacombe

Henry Thomas Ellacombe or Ellicombe (1790-1885), was an English divine and antiquary.

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HMNB Devonport

Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport (HMNB Devonport), is the largest naval base in Western Europe and is the sole nuclear repair and refuelling facility for the Royal Navy.

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Hoax

A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth.

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Honiton

Honiton is a market town and civil parish in East Devon, situated close to the River Otter, north east of Exeter in the county of Devon.

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Hoof

A hoof, plural hooves or hoofs, is the tip of a toe of an ungulate mammal, strengthened by a thick, horny, keratin covering.

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Jersey Devil

In New Jersey folklore, the Jersey Devil (or Leeds Devil) is a legendary creature said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey.

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Joe Nickell

Joe Nickell (born December 1, 1944) is an American prominent skeptic and investigator of the paranormal.

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Kangaroo

The kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot").

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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in east central England.

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Mass hysteria

In sociology and psychology, mass hysteria (also known as collective hysteria, group hysteria, or collective obsessional behavior) is a phenomenon that transmits collective illusions of threats, whether real or imaginary, through a population in society as a result of rumors and fear (memory acknowledgement).

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Mike Dash

Mike Dash (born 1963) is a Welsh writer, historian and researcher.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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Notes and Queries

Notes and Queries is a long-running quarterly scholarly journal that publishes short articles related to "English language and literature, lexicography, history, and scholarly antiquarianism".

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Phantom kangaroo

A Phantom kangaroo is a report of kangaroos, wallabies, or their accompanying footprints in areas where there is no native population.

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Primary source

In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called original source or evidence) is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study.

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Richard Owen

Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist.

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Rodent

Rodents (from Latin rodere, "to gnaw") are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

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Satan

Satan is an entity in the Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin.

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Secondary source

In scholarship, a secondary source"".

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South Australian Register

The Register, originally the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register, and later South Australian Register, was South Australia's first newspaper.

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South Devon

South Devon is the southern part of Devon, England.

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Teignmouth

Teignmouth is a large seaside town, fishing port and civil parish in the English county of Devon, situated on the north bank of the estuary mouth of the River Teign about 14 miles south of Exeter.

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The Book of the Damned

The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work by American author Charles Fort (first edition 1919).

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The Great Thunderstorm

The Great Thunderstorm of Widecombe-in-the-Moor in Dartmoor, Kingdom of England, took place on Sunday, 21 October 1638, when the church of St Pancras was apparently struck by ball lightning during a severe thunderstorm.

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The Illustrated London News

The Illustrated London News appeared first on Saturday 14 May 1842, as the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Topsham, Devon

Topsham is a town in Exeter in the county of Devon, England, on the east side of the River Exe, immediately north of its confluence with the River Clyst and the former's estuary, between Exeter and Exmouth.

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Torquay

Torquay is a seaside town in Devon, England, part of the unitary authority area of Torbay.

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Totnes

Totnes is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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Urban legend

An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend is a form of modern folklore.

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Weymouth, Dorset

Weymouth is a seaside town in Dorset, England, situated on a sheltered bay at the mouth of the River Wey on the English Channel coast.

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Wood mouse

The wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) is a common murid rodent from Europe and northwestern Africa.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Footprints

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