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Joseph Bonaparte and The New Jersey Devil:
?Commodore Stephen Decatur was an American naval hero in the
early nineteenth century. According to legend, he visited the
Hanover Mill Works to inspect his cannonballs being forged.
While there, he visited a firing range and sighted a flying
creature flapping its wings. He fired a cannonball directly upon
it. It had no effect and the creature flew away.
Joseph Bonaparte, the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte and former
King of Spain, was reported to have seen the Devil. The incident
took place in Bordentown, New Jersey while he was game hunting
in the nearby woods.
The infamous Captain Kidd is reputed to have buried treasure in
Barnegat Bay. Legend has it he beheaded one of his men to guard
forever his buried treasure. Accounts claim the headless pirate
and the Jersey Devil became friends and were seen in the
evenings walking along the Atlantic and in nearby marshlands.
In Clayton, New Jersey, the Devil was chased by a posse to the
edge of a wooded area. The Devil fled into the wood. The posse,
afraid to pursue him, halted and declared ?if you're the Devil,
rattle your chains.?
The Devil's taste varies. He was seen cavorting at sea with a
mermaid in 1870. And he is reputed to have had a ham and egg
breakfast with a Republican ? Judge French. But the Devil is not
known to have specific political leanings.
The Devil's sightings have covered great geographic distances.
? from Bridgeton to Haddonfield in 1859; to the New York border
in 1899; and from Gloucester City to Trenton in 1909. Until this
time, tales of the Devil were passed by word-of-mouth. However,
published police and newspaper accounts during a famous week in
January of 1909 took the story of the Devil from folk belief to
authentic folk legend. Thirty different sightings in a one-week
period told of the Devil sailing across the Delaware River to
Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Newspaper articles created
a near panic in the region.
Theory and the Devil
After the 1909 appearances, the scientific community was asked
for possible explanations. Reportedly, science professors from
Philadelphia and experts from the Smithsonian Institution
thought the Devil to be a prehistoric creature from the Jurassic
period. Had the creature survived in nearby limestone caves? Was
it a pterodactyl or a peleosaurus? New York scientists thought
it to be a marsupial carnivore. Was it an extinct fissiped?
However, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia could
not locate any record of a living of dead species resembling the
Jersey Devil.? (2)
There is a remote ?possibility? that the Hapsburgs and
Randolphs or other Merovingian sorcerers who live in the upper
Chesapeake area have something to do with this Devil. Some of
their rituals definitely involve the invocation of Asmodeus or
other elementals that some call demons. They also claim to be
able to shape-shift but I suspect they are involved in
projecting hallucinations or what is called mind-fogging. In any
event it is interesting to find Napoleon?s brother living in
these parts of America. But let us consider another origin of
this entity. The supposed birthplace of this Devil is with a Ms.
Leeds who had many children and one of them mutated. From the
same source as referenced above we have ? ?On a stormy night in
1735, a Quaker woman gave birth to a child during a
thunderstorm. The room flickered with candlelight. The wind
howled. Some believed her to be a sorceress. The impoverished
woman, known as Mother Leeds, was believed to have many other
children ? as many as twelve. Some say the child was born
deformed. Some say she cursed the child because of her dire
straits. Other accounts say the child was born normal and took
on odd characteristics later.
Characteristics such as an elongated body, winged shoulders, a
large horse-like head, cloven feet and a thick tail. According
to legend, the child was confined until it made its escape
either out the cellar door or up the chimney. The Jersey Devil
had been born.?
Sir Laurence Gardner tells us his Rosicrucian alchemical
wanna-bes had developed cloning and Elixirs to address the
telomeres at the end of genetic strands. There is archaeological
evidence such as the Portuguese half Neanderthal baby dated to
24,000 years ago and the Bonobos as well as the recent Hobbits.
There is a helical structure to DNA and Harmonic energy patterns
affecting forces such as time. Amazing things can be produced in
other dimensions for a certainty. No I dare not disregard the
possibility that some of our founding fathers were doing more
than mere miscegenation (Jefferson) and animal husbandry (George
Washington). There was indeed a time when Jefferson believed
that Negroes were a human crossed with an orangutan. Once the
creature had lived and developed a soul I can imagine it was not
a happy camper. Maybe this relates to the Mothman too. The soul
of such a creature would not be likely to leave this event
horizon or plane of existence.
About the author:
Author of many books available at World-Mysteries,com and
elsewhere. Columnist for SpiritQuest and The ES Press.
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