Devil’s Footprints

Record summary

After a snowfall in February 1855, residents across parts of Devon reported a line of hoof-like impressions appearing across roofs, walls, fields, and other obstacles. Contemporary newspaper coverage described the marks as unusually continuous and attributed them to the Devil, while later writers proposed kangaroos, ponies, human mischief, or weather-related misperception. The episode matters for comparing how scattered track reports become a regional monster narrative. The original geography, number of witnesses, and exact form of the impressions remain difficult to reconstruct from surviving reports.