Spring-Heeled Jack
June 29th, 2009
One of my favorite Victorian urban legends is Spring-Heeled Jack, a flying, fire-breathing demon who scared the wits out of a maid in Blackheath one evening in the 1840’s and was seen around London now and again for several decades before disappearing for in 1890. He caught the imagination of the lurid press and appeared as a cross between Batman and a scaly demon. He had the ability to jump tall walls as if they were nothing, but though he breathed fire at several persons, never actually did anyone harm. Was he human, hoax, or some sort of unclassified cryptozoological creature, a Victorian version of the Mothman? I don’t know, but perhaps someday Barker should track down this creature for the good of London. After all, we can’t have our housemaids terrorized, can we?
Cheerio,
Will
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