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Any chain is freely worn. In most cases, you are enslaved only because you allow it. This is the one card in the deck that holds the secret of how to escape the material and temporal bonds of Earth.
Tasmanian Devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) fighting over food at the Devil Sanctuary, Cradle Mountain, Tasmania.
Rock of Cashel
Cashel - Co.Tipperary - Ireland
"According to local mythology, the Rock of Cashel originated in the Devil's Bit, a mountain 20 miles (30 km) north of Cashel when St. Patrick banished Satan from a cave, resulting in the Rock's landing in Cashel. Cashel is reputed to be the site of the conversion of the King of Munster by St. Patrick in the 5th century.
The Rock of Cashel was the traditional seat of the kings of Munster for several hundred years prior to the Norman invasion. In 1101, the King of Munster, Muirchertach Ua Briain, donated his fortress on the Rock to the Church. The picturesque complex has a character of its own and is one of the most remarkable collections of Celtic art and medieval architecture to be found anywhere in Europe. Few remnants of the early structures survive; the majority of buildings on the current site date from the 12th and 13th centuries."
Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_of_Cashel
I love watching. Roberto says: "Don't act to change the world, just look at the delirious human parade with a warm smile and enjoy it!".
I'm changing. I'm learning to do this.
She is beautiful, by my point of view, and if you just look at her red left side and leave apart the white one, you might also pretend to see her eye open, and it's evil...
Take Devil's Staircase trekking and enjoy the breathtaking views of the Southern Plains. This famous route is a 14km long trail of sharp zig-zag twists that are extremely steep and difficult, but quite thrilling to travel.
View from Devil's Bridge, Forest of Chaudfontaine, Belgium
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Situé entre Chaudfontaine et Ninane, le Pont du Diable se dessine à l'horizon sur sa colline, reliant deux promontoires boisés, dans un de ces sites étonnant qui compte parmi les grandes valeurs touristiques de la localité.
Sa construction bizarre remonte à une date indéterminée.
Voici au sujet de sa dénomination la légende que nous a racontée un vieux calidifontain qui la tenait déjà de son grand-père :
"Jadis les cultivateurs du hameau de Ninane et des hameaux environnants se rendaient à la ville en empruntant la vallée de la Vesdre qu'ils rejoignaient en descendant vers Chaudfontaine.
Toutefois, pour atteindre cette dernière localité, un seul chemin était accessible et au centre de ce chemin se dressait un pont rudimentaire qu'ils devaient emprunter. Or, un beau matin, à la stupéfaction générale, les paysans constatèrent que le pont en question s'était écroulé pendant la nuit.
Sa reconstruction, à l'époque, allait nécessiter plusieurs semaines de travail acharné et une nombreuse main-d'oeuvre. Après s'être lamenté toute la journée, et après examen de la situation, les paysans désespérés décidèrent, la nuit tombante, de rentrer chez eux.
C'est à cet instant même qu'une grande lueur se produisit et que dans un tourbillon de flammes apparu le Diable en personne.
A peine revenu de leur stupéfaction, les paysans tremblant de frayeur entendirent Satan leur proposer le marché suivant.
Si vous le désirez, dit-il, pour demain matin, ce pont sera reconstruit ! Toutefois, en compensation, je vous demande de me donner l'âme de la première créature qui franchira le nouveau pont.
Foncièrement chrétiens, les paysans refusèrent un tel marché.
... Les jours passèrent... les nuits passèrent... les finances baissèrent... et la misère commença à se faire jour.
Acculés par la faim, les paysans retournèrent près des ruines du pont et conclurent le marché proposé quelque temps auparavant par Satan.
Et le lendemain matin, lorsqu'ils découvrirent le pont reconstruit et Satan attendant, en triomphateur sa victime, ils se concertèrent.
On installa alors un grand sac à l'entrée du pont.
De ce sac, s'enfuit un magnifique bouc qui se précipita sur le pont et se jeta dans les bras du Diable qui, se voyant trompé, n'eut d'autre solution que de retourner en hurlant vers le feu éternel de son royaume maudit.
Voilà, telle qu'elle nous a été racontée, la légende de ce pont qui depuis lors s'appelle "LE PONT DU DIABLE".
At the Elizabethtown Downtown Cruise-in, one of the vehicles had this cute Tasmanian Devil sitting on the hood. I just had to capture this in a photo for the ANSH "a toy with teeth" hunt item.
There is also a larger Tasmanian Devil sitting behind the steering wheel!
Devils Cornfield, Morning. Death Valley National Park, California. March 31, 2011. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Low angle morning light silhouettes receding hills and plants near Devils Cornfield, Death Valley National Park.
Taking advantage of the low angle light from the sun as it rose above the Funeral Mountains, I shot almost directly into the light with a long lens to photograph these backlit plants ("arrowweed" I believe) growing along the fringes of the Devils Cornfield area not far from Stovepipe Wells. Although the compressed perspective from the relatively long focal length disguises the fact, I was shooting from a hill that gave me some elevation above the flat surface of the Valley here, and provided a bit better view of the tops of the hills receding into the haze.
I made a variation on this photograph at the same time that I posted earlier - it is in color and used an even longer focal length to get a bit more detail of the mesquite tree that is barely visible in the upper right area of this shot. The color image has a much less start appearance than the black and white rendition with its contrast between the light on the tops of the plants and the surrounding dark soil.
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The famous three bridges at the village of Devil's Bridge in Ceridigion, Wales. The two stone bridges at the bottom and in the middle were finally superceded by an iron bridge in 1901. Close by are the Mynach Falls. There is, inevitably, a story about the bridges being the work of the Devil.
Location Crook County, Wyoming, USA
Nearest city Hulett, Wyoming
Coordinates: 44°35′25″N by 104°42′55″W
Area1,346.91 acres (5.45 km2)
EstablishedSeptember 24, 1906
Visitors386,558 (in 2004)
Governing body National Park Service
Along the road from Mt. Rushmore to Yellowstone we passed by Devil's Tower, a sedimentary monolith rising more than 1,200 ft above the surrounding area.
The Devil's Chimney is a limestone rock formation that stands above a disused quarry on Leckhampton Hill, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
It is named for its peculiar shape, that of a crooked and twisted chimney rising from the ground. It is a local landmark, but its origins are uncertain. In 1926 it survived an earthquake, but not without a few cracks. In 1985 it was repaired and protected from further erosion.
Legend holds that the Devil's Chimney is the chimney of the Devil's dwelling deep beneath the ground. Supposedly the Devil, provoked by the many Christian churches of the area, would sit atop Leckhampton Hill and hurl stones at Sunday churchgoers. However the stones were turned back on him, driving him beneath the ground and trapping him there so he could not further harass the villagers. Now he uses the mass of stones as his chimney to let free the smokes of hell.
In the past, when the “chimney” was accessible, visitors would leave a coin on top of the rock as payment to the Devil in exchange for his staying in his underground home and not leaving to create mischief and spread evil in the local area.
The 19th-century geologist S. Buckman suggested that the strange shape of the Devil's Chimney could be put down to differential erosion, involving the softer outer rock being worn away to leave only the inner harder rock remaining. However, this would require some explanation of why there was a column of harder rock there in the first place.
The truth is probably that the Devil's Chimney was left behind by 18th-century quarry workers, who quarried around it as a joke.
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