{"id":87587,"date":"2026-10-20T08:46:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87587"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:46:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:46:55","slug":"the-devil-wears-bronze-german-town-in-uproar-over-satan-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/the-devil-wears-bronze-german-town-in-uproar-over-satan-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Devil Wears Bronze: German Town In Uproar Over Satan Statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/imageserver\/image\/c4f8fc48-df11-4465-873d-67cf87e259c2.jpg?strip=all&amp;format=webp&amp;crop=5370px%2C3020px%2C0px%2C3386px&amp;resize=2360\" alt=\"The &quot;Zwieblinger Teufel&quot; sculpture on the town square in Esslingen, showing a devil with an onion.\" width=\"382\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"d0615607-7bfe-462c-8fba-afe37ae27314\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to local legend, at some point in the Middle Ages a debonair figure passed through the market in the southwest German town of Esslingen am Neckar and asked a greengrocer for one of her fine red apples.<\/p>\n<p id=\"637475f6-56e5-4d17-a9ef-1f384e6e05f8\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet the woman detected a faint whiff of sulphur about his person and spotted a cloven hoof sticking out of his well-tailored trouser leg.\u00a0Surmising that it must be the Devil in human form, she handed him an onion instead. Taking a hasty bite and reeling with disgust, Satan flew into a rage, cursing the \u201conion folk\u201d and vowing never to return. Yet now he has, in the form of a bronze statue marking Esslingen\u2019s 1,250th anniversary, and not everyone is best pleased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Times: According to local legend, at some point in the Middle Ages a debonair figure passed through the.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87588,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87587\/revisions\/87588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}