10/12/2023 0 Comments Facebook monster legends official![]() One Northamptonshire victim claimed her attacker was ‘the very image of the devil himself, with horns and eyes aflame'. Now a veritable bogeyman in London, with children being warned that if they misbehaved Spring-Heeled Jack would jump through their window, he moved north. Read more about: Vikings Loki’s most mischievous tricks in Norse mythology ![]() Both described being blinded by blue flames and clawed at before he leapt into the night when disturbed. In February, Jack attempted to strangle Jane Alsop outside her home after posing as a policeman, while Lucy Scales was attacked in March in Green Dragon Alley. Was this trend a series of misbegotten pranks, or an ongoing wager to scare women? However, information soon came forward suggesting a much darker plan to kill six women within an allotted time.Īttacks increased with people apparently dying of fright in Brixton and Camberwell as hysteria spread. London’s Lord Mayor, Sir John Cowen, received complaints from Peckham residents where seven ladies had been ‘deprived of their senses’ with two likely ‘to become burdens on their families’. Soon, reports from Ealing, Kensington, and Hammersmith began to pour in with women frightened into ‘dangerous fits’ and ‘severely wounded by claws’. In January 1838, barmaid Polly Adams was attacked by a cloaked, devil-like creature that clawed at her on Blackheath. Read more about: Xmas Krampus: The Alpine monster that scares kids at Christmas
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