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The Devil Baby of Hull House
The Devil Baby of Hull House: A SCULPTED HEAD OF
THE DEVIL BABY BY ARTIST RICARDO PUSTANIO
The most famous American Devil Baby has to be the
Chicago’s Devil Baby of Hull House. At least, this is certainly
the most widespread legend.
Hull House represented the life’s work of Nobel
Prize winning philanthropist Jane Addams. It was a place envisioned
as a stepping-stone for underprivileged and impoverished members
of Chicago’s poor immigrant society. Because of Addams’
particular interest in suffrage and women’s and children’s
rights, it was natural that immigrant women and mothers would be
attracted to the beacon of Hull House.
Despite Addams’ fervent denials (she dedicated
more than 40 pages to the legend and its impact on her life in her
autobiography) the story persisted that Hull House was the home
of a creature not of this earth.
HULL
HOUSE
Story
by Mark Bergeron Devil Baby artwork by Ricardo Pustanio © 2006
Many
a tale of horror is associated with that of Jane Addam's Hull House,
One of America's most famous haunted houses. Founded by Jane Addams
in 1889 on Chicago's Near haunted West side, this now world famous
social settlement has become a museum dedicated to Jane Addams and
her many works. The house is in a community where, long ago, immigrants
fought in the streets to find their place in Chicago. Hull House
is rumored to be the most haunted place in the area... Some hear
footsteps, voices are often heard, and a cold touch or bump by an
unseen specter. The stories told time and again by both staff and
visitors.
The
most notorious inhabitant of Hull House might be the Devil Baby
of Hull House. That is if, in fact, one ever existed. Even though
Jane Addams did everything within her power to persuade people,
both in person and in print, that this child was just myth, to this
day some still believe the Devil Baby remains trapped in the attic
of Hull House.
Who
was the Devil Baby? READ MORE HERE!
The Haunting of Hull House
Over the years, too numerous in the telling, real reported stories of ghosts' Devil's and hauntings have surrounded Hull House, making it a stop on many of the "ghosts in Chicago" tours. Charles Hull's wife had died in her bedroom, which was later used by Addams after the establishment of Hull House. Addams did not believe in ghosts, but noted that many believed that building to be haunted in her book Twenty Years at Hull House.
In 1913, another Hull House ghost story began circulating. According to this legend, after a man claimed that he would rather have the Devil in his house than a picture of The Virgin Mary, his child was born with pointed ears, horns, scale-covered skin and a tail.
The mother was said to have taken the deformed child of Satan, or deformed innocent baby to Hull House, where Addams was said to have attempted to have it baptized and wound up locking it in the attic.
While initially annoyed about the story, which had no basis in fact, Addams used the episode as a basis for her book, The Long Road of Woman's Memory. Many erroneous stories have circulated about the house, including stories that it was built on grounds cursed by Native Americans and that the devil baby was buried in the garden adjacent to the house (in reality, there was a building on the spot where the garden now stands at the time of the Devil Baby story).
HULL HOUSE
800
Halsted Street, Chicago
Phone: (312) 413-5353
Tours: Chicago Supernatural Tours; (708) 499-0300; www.ghosttours.com
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The Jersey Devil
The
Jersey Devil is a legendary creature or cryptid said to inhabit the
Pine Barrens in southern New Jersey. The creature is often described
as a flying biped with hooves, but there are many variations. There
are many possible origins of the Jersey Devil legend. The aptly named
Pine Barrens were shunned by most early settlers as a desolate, threatening
place. Being relatively isolated, the barrens were a natural refuge
for those wanting to remain hidden, including religious dissenters,
loyalists, fugitives and military deserters in colonial times. Such
individuals formed solitary groups and were pejoratively called "pineys",
some of whom became notorious bandits known as "pine robbers".
Pineys were further demonized after two early twentieth century eugenics
studies depicted them as congenital idiots and criminals. It is easy
to imagine early tales of terrible monsters arising from a combination
of sightings of genuine animals such as bears, the activities of pineys,
and fear of the barrens. >More<
ALSO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE DEVIL
HERE:
THE
DEVIL
Whether
we call him Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub - or whether we are afraid
to speak his infernal name at all - many people are concerned about
the devil. Devil, Greek diabolos; Lat. diabolus)The Bible, taken
literally, clearly states the devil exists. Satan is mentioned by
name in 47 passages <MORE>.
THE
DEVIL'S DUE
Whether
we call him The Great Satan, Lucifer, , Shaitan, Beelzebub, Iblis-Satan
is also commonly known as the Devil, the "Prince of Darkness,",
Belial, and Mephistopheles or the Dragon, the Serpent, the Goat.
Or whether we are afraid to speak his unholy infernal name aloud
at all - many people are truly concerned about the Devil's great
powers over them and others question if he is real. Satan represents
metaphysically simply the reverse or the polar opposite of everything
in nature. The Kabalists say that the true name of Satan is that
of Jehovah placed upside down, for "Satan is not a black god
but the negation of the white deity," or the light of Truth.
God is light and Satan is the necessary darkness or shadow to set
it off, without which pure light would be invisible and incomprehensible.
<MORE>
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out the Succubus female of the species
THE SHE DEVILS:
DAUGHTERS
OF DARKNESS
Lilith
is a female Mesopotamian night demon believed to harm male children.
In Isaiah 34:14, Lilith (Hebrew Lilit) is a kind of night-demon
or animal, translated as onokentauros; in the Septuagint, as lamia;
"witch" by Hieronymus of Cardia; and as screech owl
in the King James Version of the Bible. In the Talmud and Midrash,
Lilith appears as a night demon. She is often identified as the
first wife of Adam and sometimes thought to be the mother of all
incubi and succubi, a legend that arose in the Middle Ages. Lilith
is also sometimes considered to be the paramour of Satan. <
More >
PART
TWO: SUCCUBI AND MARA, THE HANDMAIDENS OF HELL
The
physical appearance of succubi varies just about as much as that
of demons in general; there is no single definitive depiction.
However, they are almost universally depicted as alluring women
with unearthly beauty, often with demonic batlike wings; occasionally,
they will be given other demonic features (horns, a tail with
a spaded tip, snakelike eyes, hooves, etc). Occasionally they
appear simply as an attractive woman in dreams that the victim
cannot seem to get off their mind. They lure males and in some
cases, the male has seemed to fall "in love" with her.
Even out of the dream she will not leave his mind. She will remain
there slowly draining energy from him. <More>
SONS
OF PERDITION: INCUBI AND DEMON LOVERS
“And
they are called Incubi from their practice of overlaying, that
is debauching. For they often lust lecherously after women, and
copulate with them…the foulest venereal acts are performed
by such devils, not for the sake of delectation, but for the pollution
of the souls and bodies of those to whom they act as . . . Incubi
[and] through such action complete conception and generation by
women can take place.” <MORE>
THE
DEVIL ALWAYS GETS HIS DUE ROBERT JOHNSON’S DEAL WITH THE
DEVIL AND THE CROSSROADS CURSE
The
story of Robert Johnson and his infamous crossroads deal with
the devil – in which he traded his immortal soul for musical
genius – is deeply ingrained in the mythology and legend
of the rural South and is one of the best-known tales of American
folklore. <
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