Mystery AtlasThe Mother Leeds Curse Legend
The traditional origin story holding that a woman known as Mother Leeds cursed her thirteenth child during a difficult 1735 labour, who was then born transformed into the Jersey Devil and flew off into the Pine Barrens.
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Theories & Explanations
The Mother Leeds Curse Legend is frequently compared to The Leeds Family Political-Feud Theory — Most folklorists treat the two as complementary rather than rival explanations: the real family's reputation most plausibly supplied the name, while the curse narrative supplied the story's transmissible dramatic shape.
Creatures & Figures
The Mother Leeds Curse Legend attempts to explain Jersey Devil.