the Jersey Devil is the only American dragon with a confirmed origin story and that's the scariest part

everyone in the Pine Barrens knows it and most everyone elsewhere thinks it's a Halloween cartoon. 1735, Mother Leeds, pregnant with her 13th, supposedly cursed it — 'let it be the Devil' — and it's born deformed, sprouts wings and a horse's head and a forked tail, and flies up the chimney into the ……