The Jersey Devil: An Analysis

As H.P Lovecraft one said "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear and the oldest and stronger kind of fear is the fear is fear of the unknown." This quote is pretty straight forward. When you do not understand something you tend to fear it, like an omnipotent humanoid man in the sky judging you because you where told so. However, it is told by someone who is eyes are yet to be open. In the beginning there were things that are hard to explain since there was nothing to actually rely on for facts or information or any type of understanding of a language, but as complex minded as humans evolved we started to do something that was remarkable, and that was language. With language it is defined as thoughts converted into a method of …show more content…
Just like translations, there is always something that can be interpreted differently or completely change all together by just a word of mouth and who is telling the story. Here are some notable examples of the Jersey Devil having many different interpretations of the story, this example is by an article stating that a man was just hunting in the woods until he heard something that sounded like a snake to only find out that the spotted the Jersey Devil was only a few feet away from him. The man in the article then exclaimed that he heard about the Jersey Devil as a Native American legend."Crackpots aren't the only ones who claim to have seen the creepy critter. In the early 19th century, U.S. Commodore Stephen Decatur is said to have seen it when he was 'testing cannonballs in the Pine Barrens.' Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon (yes, that Napoleon) and Bordentown, N.J., resident, had his own sighting as well. According to Mental Floss, he was hunting alone in the woods when he heard a 'strange hissing noise' and found himself face-to-face with an animal with a 'long neck, wings, legs like a crane with horse's hooves at the end, stumpy arms with paws, and a face like a horse or a camel.' It hissed once more before flying