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Mowing-Devil
Sign in to saveAlso known as The Mowing-Devil: or, Strange News out of Hartford-shire, Strange News out of Hartford-shire, Strange News out of Hertfordshire
right|thumbnail|The Mowing Devil pamphlet. The Mowing-Devil: or, Strange News out of Hartford-shire is the title of an English woodcut pamphlet published in 1678. It narrates a tale of Satan mowing a field in Hertfordshire, and presents itself as reporting the news. It has been cited as an early report of crop circles.
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right|thumbnail|The Mowing Devil pamphlet. The Mowing-Devil: or, Strange News out of Hartford-shire is the title of an English woodcut pamphlet published in 1678. It narrates a tale of Satan mowing a field in Hertfordshire, and presents itself as reporting the news. It has been cited as an early report of crop circles.
==Content== The pamphlet tells a "strange" news story of an anonymous farmer in Hertfordshire who, refusing to pay the price demanded by a farmworker to mow his field of oats, swore he would rather the Devil mowed it instead.
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