{"id":13759,"date":"2018-02-10T15:13:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T15:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=13759"},"modified":"2018-02-19T14:44:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T14:44:49","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s In A Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What’s in a name?<\/span><\/p>\n

When it comes to the devil, perhaps more than a moniker.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or is it just happenstance?<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, on January 2 there was a horrible crash about thirty miles from Lima, Peru, in which fifty-two were killed when a bus plunged 330 feet over a seaside cliff after colliding with a truck at a bend called “Devil’s Curve.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In this case, of course, the name almost certainly comes from the danger of that bend (as opposed to the other way around).<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, perhaps not a wise toponym.<\/span><\/p>\n

And this is true in other locales. One notes the peculiarities of what sometimes seem like periodic accidents at Devil’s Lake in North Dakota. One can recall from the news a person killed and four injured<\/a><\/span> in a boat accident there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The year before that, two men were found dead inside a vehicle underwater there.<\/span><\/p>\n

There also have been folks hurt or lost amid the surrounding cliffs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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From 1995 to 2014, 34 people died in boating-related accidents in North Dakota.\u00a0In Devils Lake, there were a total of 14 boating accidents in that time frame. Of those accidents, there were two deaths in 2002 when a boat capsized and two injuries in separate incidents in 2008.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There is also a Devil’s Lake in Wisconsin. Mysteries here.<\/span><\/p>\n

And in Michigan — where two years ago a\u00a0snowmobile driver died due to a crash.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In Niagara Falls, many mishaps have occurred at a place in the gorge called Devil’s Hole where Senecas once massacred dozens of European pioneers; in recognition of that, a nearby creek is called Bloody Run. <\/span><\/p>\n

Folks who have fallen into the turbulent waters in the gorge itself below Bloody Run and next to Devil’s Hole, which is a cave, claim that they felt almost pushed, while others assert hearing whispers from inside. (Is it only because such a cave lends itself to spookiness?)<\/span><\/p>\n

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In Ireland there’s Devil’s Elbow, and while no one is saying there is an extraordinary rate of incidents, accidents are certainly not unknown here, including a head-on a bit more than a year ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

Accidents happen everywhere there are roads, we all know. It’s hard to classify some as even vaguely related. How about Devil’s Swamp in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where a strange black cloud has been seen and where chemical wastes have contaminated twelve square miles of what was once a haven for wildlife and fishermen (and where a puff of caustic smoke once killed a neighboring woman)?<\/span><\/p>\n

\"ImageNear San Francisco,<\/span> there is Mount Diablo. Narrow roads and poor signage have been blamed for an extraordinary number of accidents, especially with bikes. In one four-year period there were twenty-four such accidents. The reason for most: three hundred curves. But what about the twenty-six-year-old male who fell at Mount Diablo in 2016, and more starkly, the woman who several years before took her sixteen-year-old son to the top, at a lookout with a panoramic view of the Bay Area, and there shot him to death before turning her .357 pistol on herself?<\/span><\/p>\n

Or, the spectral figures claimed on the slopes of the mountain, near a cemetery in which there are 250 buried from a mining company that had been there — quite a number of dead, considering\u00a0 the community’s size, many of the deceased bafflingly young…<\/span><\/p>\n

\"ImageIn Larryville, Pennsylvania, according to United Press International<\/a><\/span>, “a school bus returning from a field trip overturned Thursday on a narrow road with a sharp curve known as ‘Devil’s Elbow,’ injuring 60 children and parents.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In the UK, a\u00a0man went over the cliff at Devil’s Elbow on what they call the “Peel to Kirk Michael coast road.” <\/span><\/p>\n

As stated: some of these spots are\u00a0named<\/em> for the devil because they are inherently treacherous, or at least hazardous. Way over off Japan is the Devil’s Sea (Ma-no Umi<\/em>), where there are Bermuda-Triangle-like tales and also real wrecks and ship or plane disappearances: in the last thousand years, hundreds of vessels (most due to warfare; some “unexplained”) have been lost.\"Image<\/span>Spooky, in California, is “Devil’s Gate Dam,” right at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Here there have been dozens of suicides off a bridge (now known as “Suicide Bridge”) in the vicinity.\u00a0(Photo above, from California Curiosities.<\/a><\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s something that occurs whenever there is a high place from which to jump, but there also have been bizarre crimes committed in the area, and it is known that a rocket scientist named Jack Parsons — an adherent to black magician Aleister Crowley — used this area for major rituals.<\/span><\/p>\n

More on Jack — a co-founder of the laboratory, and one of the most important rocket scientists in history — in an upcoming article…<\/span><\/p>\n

[Resources: books on spiritual warfare<\/a><\/span>]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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