The devil’s chair. It lurks in the cemetery among the tombstones. Its purpose is sinister – no matter how ornately carved and innocuous it may seem. It waits to be discovered. It waits for another unsuspecting mourner to take a seat.
1)What is a Devil's chair in a cemetery:
if you’ve seen one of them, you immediately knew what I was talking about. If you haven’t, they’re pretty easy to picture. It’s a carved-stone chair that sits next to a grave. They can be found next to single graves or within a family plot. You’ll often find them in the oldest cemeteries in town.
2)What is a Devil's chair:-
If you see a stone chair in a cemetery, look out. If you sit on it, you might end up dead. Would you want to take that chance? Many have.
A devil’s chair has a few different names. Some call these seats next to gravestones witch’s chairs or haunted chairs. No matter what name a chair goes by, each one is a connotation of the supernatural. And each one inspires legend tripping (we’ll come back to this).
3)Origin:-
A devil’s chair is an urban legend that dates back many years. Like all urban legends, the “curse” involved varies from location to location and even storyteller to storyteller.
According to “Weird Illinois” (part of the “Weird” book series), devil’s chair tales began “in the Appalachian Mountains in the mid-1800s.” Here it was said that every year there was a special night when “a chair would rise from the ground in a graveyard [and] anyone who sat down in it could make a pact with the devil.” Asking Old Scratch for anything, though, leads to trouble. The devil, of course, would eventually take the person’s soul.
These days, the chairs have been permanent adornments in the cemetery for possibly 100 years. So, rather than bursting periodically from the ground like an unruly corpse, they are available sitting on 365 days a year. Imagine the mischief they could cause
4)Legend has it or people say that:-
Over the years, the legend of the devil’s chair has evolved. But even if you don’t make a deal with the devil, you might still rue the day you took a seat.
If you sit in one of these chairs, depending on where you live or what story you’ve heard, you will:
- Die during the coming year
- Die before a certain birthday
- Hear the crying of a baby or scream of a woman
- Make a deal with the devil
Sometimes, death comes a lot quicker. Usually, the person sharing the legend “knows” a person who knows someone this happened to. For example: “My cousin knows this guy who sat on the devil’s chair in Fairlawn Cemetery who died a week later in a car crash!
5):-Legend tripping:-
Even if you haven’t heard this term before, you’re probably familiar with what it is. You may have even done it yourself. Legend tripping is the act of seeking out the location of an urban legend in order to try it for yourself. Because each area has its own urban legend(s), legend tripping is a form of an adolescent rite of passage. Kids dare each other to something frightening or dangerous in order to prove themselves to their peers.
Examples of legend tripping include:
- Sneaking into a cemetery at night to sit on a devil’s chair
- Sneaking into a cemetery at night to touch a cemetery monument with a creepy reputation (such a black angel statue)
- Driving to a Crybaby Bridge or railroad crossing to see if the ghosts of the children who allegedly died there will push your car away
- Driving to a gravity hill to put your car in neutral so it will mysteriously roll uphill
- Taking a dare to go into a haunted location like an abandoned building
- Going Bigfoot hunting
These carved stone chairs were for cemetery visitors of the non-devilish variety. Sometimes they’re called memorial chairs. You may see one next to the grave of a child. In this case, it’s safe to presume that the chair was likely for the bereaved mother when she came to be near her lost child.
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