Editing Devil's Footprints (section)

=== Hopping mice ===
[[File:Mouse tracks in snow.jpg|thumb|Rodent ([[Mus (genus)|''Mus'']]) prints in snow]]
Mike Dash suggested that at least some of the prints, including some of those found on rooftops, could have been made by hopping [[rodent]]s such as [[wood mouse|wood mice]]. The print left behind after a mouse leaps resembles that of a [[cloven-hoof]]ed animal, due to the motions of its limbs when it jumps. Dash stated that the theory that the Devon prints were made by rodents was originally proposed as long ago as March 1855, in ''The Illustrated London News''.<ref name=D /> In the paper's 10 March 1855 issue, Thomas Fox, a brewer and brick maker of [[Ballingdon]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=History, Gazetteer & Directory of Suffolk, 1855 - Page 772 |url=https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/178162/rec/1 |access-date=2023-02-09 |website=specialcollections.le.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref> submitted illustrations of rodent tracks in varying snow depths as well as a diagram for how rodents' hind and forelimbs create the "hoof" shaped prints.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/sim_illustrated-london-news_1855-03-10_26_731 |title=The Illustrated London News 1855-03-10: Vol 26 Iss 731 |date=1855-03-10 |publisher=Illustrated London News |language=English}}</ref>