A Creature of the Crop
Posted by: Nick Redfern on July 3rd, 2012
Over a Mysterious Universe, I dig into the strange story of the Mowing Devil – an affair that has led many to conclude Crop Circles have origins that extend much further back than many assume.
The story itself is not cryptozoological. But the accompanying old pamphlet that was put together to describe the event in question has a picture of an entity in it that is intriguing (as you’ll see from the above).
And there’s another reason I mention this: there are other examples of strange creatures having been seen in UK Crop Circles – a story I will relate soon…
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I was annoyed recently when I saw (here in the U.K.) on the television programme Q.I., Stephen Fry announce that crop circles only started in the 1970’s! I immediately thought of this old woodcut.
As long as it’s not one of those scarecrows come to life! Those are amongst the creepiest of monsters.
It doesn’t look to me like this has anything to do with crop circles. Sure, you may say the morality tale grew up to explain the morality tale, but it’s *at least* as likely that the “crop circle” part of it was never more than a minor detail to a morality tale. Besides, it appears that the Devil both cut and removed the grain — again, so that the bad man would suffer loss as should happen in a morality tale — whereas the grain is only knocked over in a crop circle.
That’s not to say there is no connection at all. It might well be that the worker got together with some friends to play a practical joke on the bad man in order to teach him a lesson, in some ways anticipating modern pranksters.