The Devil's Chair (urban legend)

The term devil's chair (or haunted chair) in folklore is frequently attached to a class of funerary or memorial sculpture common in the United States during the nineteenth century and often associated with legend tripping. Nineteenth-century graveyards sometimes included carved chairs for the comfort of visitors.[1] In this function, the object was known as a "mourning chair," and cemeteries have since provided benches for similar purposes, most often movable units of the type used in parks, but also specimens in the tradition of the carved chairs.[2][unreliable source?]

Some carved chairs were probably not intended for use as anything but monuments, while the "monubench" is still commercially available.[3] Once the original purpose of these chairs fell out of fashion, superstitions developed in association with the act of sitting in them. In a typical example, local young people dare one another to visit the site, most often after dark, at midnight, or on some specified night such as Halloween or New Year's Eve. Variously, the stories suggest the person brave enough to sit in the chair at such a time may be punished for impudence or rewarded for courage.

Florida, USA

The Devil's Chair in Cassadaga, Florida is a graveside bench in the cemetery that borders Cassadaga and Lake Helen. According to one local legend, an unopened can of beer left on the chair will be empty by morning. In some accounts, the can is opened, and in others, the beer is simply gone, through the unopened top. The Devil himself is sometimes said to appear to anyone so bold as to sit in the chair.[4]

Illinois, USA

The Haunted Chair of Greenwood Cemetery, Decatur, IL.[5][unreliable source?]

Iowa, USA

The Devil's Chair in Guthrie Center, Iowa, is a cement-cast chair located in Union Cemetery, situated between two graves and unmarked as belonging to either. Local legend claims that bad luck will follow anyone who sits in it. While the cemetery itself was established as a private burial ground in 1885, the legend of the chair is only documented for approximately thirty years.[6][unreliable source?]

Missouri, USA

The Baird Chair monument in Kirksville, Missouri

The Devil's Chair or Baird Chair as it is officially named in the Highland Park Cemetery of Kirksville, Missouri was first placed in the cemetery by Charles Grassle and David Baird when David's wife, Anna Maria (Hoye) Baird, died in 1911. It has become involved in "numerous legends of a type widely replicated across the U.S., especially in rural and small-town communities, and beloved of young people.... Some versions say that something dreadful will happen to the person so bold as to be seated in it at midnight (or on a particular evening, such as Halloween) -- a hand will emerge from the grave and drag the impious one down to the underworld. Other versions suggest the intrepid one will be rewarded." The chair itself was sculpted out of concrete by Charles Grassle of the Baird and Grassle Granite Work of Kirksville MO and placed as a memorial for Anna in 1911. One year later David Baird died and was buried beside Anna. This chair acts as their grave marker.[7]

New York, USA

Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, NY contains a child-sized specimen.[8][unreliable source?]

A bench-style specimen from Seattle, WA

Ohio, USA

The Duncan monument in the Fletcher Cemetery, Fletcher, OH appears to be a carved headstone rather than a mourning chair intended for use by cemetery visitors.[9][unreliable source?][10]

Vermont, USA

"The Empty Chair" in Hope Cemetery, Barre, VT is actually a sculpted gravestone rather than being intended as a seat. However, the usual legends have grown up around it.[11][unreliable source?]

Georgia, USA

In Bonaventure Cemetery located in Savannah, Georgia the grave of famed music writer Johnny Mercer is formed in the style of one of these seats. Interestingly, contrary to other similar markers, Mercer's marker has writings and quotes on it and serves more as the tombstone, than a mourning chair.[12]

Italy

The lore may not be exclusive to the United States. In Torcello, the "throne of Attila" was probably in fact a magistrate's seat; local legend claims that a girl who sits in it will be married within a year.[13][unreliable source?]

References

  1. ^ "Haunted Places and Urban Legends from Illinois. The gate". Hauntedusa.org. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  2. ^ "Image 1 at Flickr". Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  3. ^ "Quiring Monuments". Quiring Monuments. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  4. ^ "The Devil's Chair". Weird U.S. Retrieved April 13, 2014.
  5. ^ "greenwood devils chair". YouTube. 2009-01-20. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  6. ^ "Chair-shaped tomb image". Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  7. ^ "(Mosaic Chair), (Sculpture) | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution".
  8. ^ "Image 2 at Flickr". Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  9. ^ "Image at Blogspot". Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  10. ^ "Find A Grave Contributor: Julio and Nannette Worrell Serra". Findagrave.com. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  11. ^ "Image - VTBARcem_chair.jpg". Roadside America. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  12. ^ "10 of Georgia's Famous Final Resting Places".
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