Top 10 of this year's most read pieces — no.9: our post on a 1678 pamphlet, The Mowing-Devil, which includes the earliest known depiction of a crop circle: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-mowing-devil/

(Full Top 10 here: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/12/top-10-most-read-pieces-from-2025)

@publicdomainrev Can the pamphlet be definitively dated to 1678? The lettering in the title is in a style I have not seen this early.