Diable Faucheur réalisant un crop circle, representé dans une gazette anglaise du 17e siècle (http://dark-ride.org/IMG/jpg/diable.jpg)

The Mowing-Devil: Or, Strange NEWS out of Hartford-ſhire.

Being a True Relation of a Farmer, who Bargaining with a poor Mower, about the Cutting down Three Half Acres of Oats upon the Mower’s asking too much, the Farmer ſwore, ‘That the Devil ſhould Mow it, rather than He.’ And lo it fell out, that that very Night, the Crop of Oats ſhew’d as if it had been all of a Flame, but next Morning appear’d ſo neatly Mow’d by the Devil, or ſome Infernal Spirit, that no Mortal Man was able to do the like. Alſo, How the ſaid Oats ly now in the Field, and the Owner has not Power to fetch them away.

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