Black Aggie
Black Aggie is the common name for a bronze sculpture that originally appeared on the Agnus family burial site in Druid Ridge Cemetery in Pikesville, Baltimore County , Maryland . A modern legend has grown up around the statue.
Black Aggie is an unauthorized replica of the allegorical statue by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens on the Adams Memorial known as Mourning . In 1905 it was acquired by the Brevet General and newspaper editor Felix Agnus from the sculptor Edward Ludwig Albert Pausch . After the death of Angus, Black Aggie leaned against a stone block decorated the family grave from the end of 1925. By the 1950s, the statue had attracted the attention of young people and fraternities and sororities who regularly performed initiation rites and tests of courage there. It was said, among other things, that anyone who sits on Black Aggie's lap at midnight will be pressed to death by her with their arms and pulled down to hell. Rumors persisted until the 1970s that dead or mutilated teenagers had been found on the statue. The nightly gatherings at Black Aggie attracted a lot of unwanted attention and vandalism for the descendants of the Angus family, so the statue was bequeathed to the Smithsonian Institution in 1967 . After being kept there for a few years, it was moved to the Cutts-Madison House , where it still stands today. The modern legend of Black Aggie is one of the most famous in Maryland.
literature
- Trevor J. Blank, David J. Puglia: Maryland Legends: Folklore from the Old Line State . History Press, Charleston (SC) 2014, ISBN 978-1-62619-413-7 , pp. 45-49
- Ed Okonowicz: Monsters of Maryland: Mysterious Creatures in the Old Line State . Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg (PA) 2012, ISBN 978-0-8117-1034-3 , pp. 87-112
Individual evidence
- ^ Trevor J. Blank, David J. Puglia: Maryland Legends: Folklore from the Old Line State . Pp. 45-49
Coordinates: 38 ° 54 '1.4 " N , 77 ° 2' 3.9" W.