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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. After a heavy snowfall, trails of hoof -like marks appeared overnight in the snow covering a total distance of some 40 to 100 miles (60 to 160 km).
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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. After a heavy snowfall, trails of hoof-like marks appeared overnight in the snow covering a total distance of some 40 to 100 miles (60 to 160 km).
May 13, 2022 · The Devil’s Footprints were mysterious cloven hoofmarks imprinted in the Devon snow over the night of 8th-9th February 1855. Sweeping an unyielding trail of up to 100 miles, they were found in fields and lanes, they scaled rooftops and jumped up drainpipes.
Feb 8, 2016 · The mystery was reignited in 2009 when a woman in North Devon discovered footprints similar to the 1855 marks in her garden. The 5-inch long prints appeared to have been made with a pair of...
- Stacy Conradt
Oct 12, 2016 · The footprints were soon named “devil’s footprints” or “tracks of Satan,” because of their shape and resemblance to a cloven hoof. Some people started to really believe the devil himself made the footprints.
By the time the first official reports were released on February 13, locals were already ascribing these footmarks to the Devil (I say footmarks because in 1855 “footprints” had not yet entered the English language). The belief that Satan had been among them drove townspeople across the county into a desperate, if not rather localised, panic.
Sep 27, 2023 · In February 1855, a strange phenomenon occurred across towns in southern England—mysterious hoof-like footprints appeared overnight in the snow, sparking panic among the superstitious populace who believed the devil had walked among them.
The Devil's Footprints was a phenomenon that occurred during February 1855 around the Exe Estuary in East and South Devon, England. After a heavy snowfall, trails of hoof -like marks appeared overnight in the snow covering a total distance of some 40 to 100 miles (60 to 160 km).
