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librarycompany:
#HappyHalloween! We’re looking at our copy of The Devil. Or, The New-Jersey Dance (Boston, 1797) for some costume inspiration, though NOT for party planning ideas. According to the “FACTS” printed within, the #JerseyDevil showed up to a dance party dressed as a fiddler, and all the attendants were forced to dance for over 30 days, “…dancing on the stumps of their legs to infernal music, their feet being worn off, and the floor streaming with blood.”
#YIKES #IsntThisABuffyEpisode
The Devil. Or, The New-Jersey dance. Boston [Mass.]: Printed and sold at Russell’s, near Liberty-Pole., 1797.
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