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The "Academic Devil" is one of a series of silhouettes from the 1960 edition of The Chanticleer, Duke University's yearbook. This image begins the yearbook's section on, fittingly enough, "Academics."
Repository: Duke University Archives. Durham, North Carolina, USA. library.duke.edu/uarchives
---- The two statues are close to each other, in the middle there are two Devils and Death that "they will be closed in a trap," their attempt to prevent the meeting will fail miserably: here Death, Great Deceiver, uses its weapons of great mystifier .... ----
---- le due statue si avvicinano tra di loro, nel mezzo si trovano i due Diavoli e la Morte che " essi saranno chiusi in trappola ", il loro tentativo di impedire l'incontro fallirà miseramente: qui la Morte, Grande Ingannatrice, adopera le sue armi di grande Mistificatore .... ----
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This is at the same time a long and short report , about the traditional sacred and profane feast with pagan roots, called "u Ballu di Diavuli" (The Dance of the Devils) that I made this year on the afternoon of Easter in the Sicilian village of Prizzi (in the province of Palermo); this feast, which has medieval origins, is the representation of the eternal struggle of Evil (two Devils and Death) against the Good (Christ and the Virgin Mary). Devils wears a wool suit in red (the color of the fire of hell ...), also wearing a flashy iron mask with a big mouth adorned with big teeth and a lolling tongue, the mask is surmounted by two horns while the back is covered with a fleece of a goat that covers shoulders and back (a Devil has a black fleece, the other Devil a white fleece), and Devils shake pieces of iron chains which are agitated bumping against the masks; the Death wears a wool suit of yellow ocher, wearing a leather mask always yellow, which looks like a skull, from his mouth come out long teeth, it holds in its hands an "instrument of death" very similar to a medieval crossbow. The feast begins on Easter morning, Death along with the two devils (which have become even four, to involve as many passers-by) roam the streets of the town of Prizzi, engaging with the passers jokes and cajoling, passers are invited to dance with them at the sound of the well-paced band music. Often the two devils "capture the spirit" of a passer, which to be able to see his liberated soul .... must issue a small donation symbolic .... Nevertheless, the name of the Sicilian feast "the Dance of the Devils" originates from a very special time of the event, when the two statues of the Risen Christ and the Virgin Mary are in front each other of them to meet (U 'Ncontru): it is here, between the two statues, the two Devils and the Death staged a bustle of dancing, jumping, coaxing ... with the aim of preventing this meeting, but they will be slain by the swords of the Angels (Angels to guard the Risen Christ), so the Mother and her Son can meet, in a blaze of joy of the devotees, with the Good that has defeated the well forces of Evil ...
That's Philip [trailname=Fip] going over The Nose at Devil's Courthouse in western North Carolina, during one of our summertime expeditions in the Great Smoky Mountains. There were over thirty of us on this one. It was only a week-long but it included backpacking the Art Loeb Trail, rapelling at Devil's Courthouse and canoeing the French Broad River. There were three faces at The Courthouse: the 600-foot Tourist; the 800-foot Wall; and the 1000-foot Nose. We did all three faces. My favorite was the Nose. After going over the edge, there was about 150 feet of free-falling before touching rock again.
Devils Wall.
This is the „Teufelsmauer“, a geologic oddity that can be found near the Harz mountains and near to my stay last weekend. I visited the place before, it's a strange landmark. Weather was great, bot so much the time I got there, but at least some landscape pictures.
This amazing exhibition tells the story of arguably the Greatest Munitions Factory on Earth, which was constructed on the Anglo-Scottish Border between scenic Dornock in Scotland and bustling Longtown in England. During 1915, Britain was at a massive disadvantage in the early part of the Great War through lack of a decent and consistent supply of quality ammunition.
That is until 30,000 women and men travelled from all over the world to come and work in this one massive factory, purpose built by the government on the northern shore of the Solway Firth specifically to mass manufacture cordite: a smokeless explosive usually made from nitro-glycerine and nitro-cotton that would go on to turn the battle around! Within 2 years this one uber factory was producing 1,100 tons of cordite a week, which was more than all the other munitions plants in Britain put together!
Blue Devils:
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Though in the 1930s Paramin Blue Devils are reported to have used instruments carved from bamboo, known as tamboo bamboo, for their percussive accompaniment, they now ordinarily move to rhythms established by beating biscuit tins, which have sometimes been given a higher pitch by tempering them with fire. According to Ashton Fournillier, a Paramin King Devil, you identify the Blue Devil by the colored paint, generally blue; the pitchfork; and the blood and guts on the tongue. There is a dance that involves hooking the foot to walk together with movements of the head and shoulders simultaneously while thrusting the pitchfork forward and screaming to the beat of the biscuit tin. Blue devils also sometimes carry painted replicas of cutlasses (machetes). Whereas once they dressed only in cutoff shorts without masks, they now often sport wings, sometimes decorated with swastikas, wear other kinds of clothes, increasingly use animal masks, and until they were recently outlawed at times carried snakes. They sometimes uproot small trees, have been seen to eat small raw sharks snatched from fish vendors, or dismember live chickens. Like some other aggressive traditional characters, they scamper up hills, climb poles and occasionally buildings. In addition to the popular blue, they sometimes paint themselves red, green, black, or white. The staccato beat of their biscuit tins, their glistening body colors, combined with their traditional dance step and skillful maneuvers identify them at once. You distinctly hear them comin' down de road. One of their most popular antics is to blow large gusts of fire, either on the ground or in the air, by spitting kerosene into the flames of their flambeaux (torches made out of bottles of kerosene).
Among the devils there is a King Devil, who leads the sometimes aggressively threatening demands for "titi"; (Trinidad dollars). The King Devil is usually on a leash controlled by another jab, sometimes called an imp, who restrains the King, whether as an emblem of enslavement or a figure of authoritative restraint in the festive context. Though the role of King Devil is an honorific that is usually held for some time by one band member, and then sometimes passed to his son, other devils can exchange roles. The usual move is from percussion to performance, so that a person that this year provides the all-important percussive rhythm, next year might become a bulging eyed, drooling monster who moves and writhes with dexterity as he pleads for and plays with the dollars thrown or dangled in front of him. Despite the fact that for the most part they keep within their own boundaries, the ferocity of their demeanor and their elemental, transgressive threats are often frightening.
...on a California Pottery platter purchased at the St. Vincent de Paul.
I mashed the yolks with ajvar -- a Balkan red pepper sauce I purchased at a specialty store -- a little mayo, minced sweet pickle, and minced fresh jalapeno.
"Devils bridge" near Leuk, Switzerland
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John Krakauer wrote about this mountain in his book EIGER DREAMS I think, and always inspired me to get closer to it!
Thrill Kill Jill
Thrill Kill Jill preforms with the LUCKY DAREDEVIL THRILLSHOW. The LUCKY DAREDEVIL THRILLSHOW is fast paced and funny, death-defying daredevil stunt spectacular with all the glitter, glamour, and gut-wrenching thrills of a Vegas show. Guaranteed to please, amuse, and amaze audiences of all ages! Hosted by silver tongued devil, TYLER FYRE, and the darling of danger, THRILL KILL JILL!
The thrill show was part of the Houston Rockets Power Dancer Halloween Party at the House of Blues.
Some text stolen from: www.luckydaredevil.com/home.html
Devil's club or devil's walking stick (Oplopanax horridus, Araliaceae; syn. Echinopanax horridus, Fatsia horrida) is a large shrub primarily native to the cool moist forests of western North America (from Wikipedia). All parts of the plant are very prickly to touch, but it has many medicinal uses. SE Alaska Inner Passage @ El Capitan Island with Un-Cruise Adventures.
Sgt. Dustin Devillers is joined by Command Sgt. Maj. Brad Heim, state command sergeant major, left, and Brig. Gen. Robert Fode, North Dakota National Guard Army Component commander, right, after winning the state-level Best Warrior Competition in the noncommissioned officer category. The yearly competition was held Aug. 18-21 at Camp Grafton Training Center, near Devils Lake, North Dakota. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Brett Miller, Joint Force Headquarters)