 Tales also mention balls of light many times but never in relation to crop circles.A 17th-century English woodcut called the "Mowing-Devil" depicts the devil with a scythe mowing (cutting) a circular design in a field of oats.The pamphlet containing the image states that the farmer, disgusted at the wage his mower was demanding for his work, insisted that he would rather have "the devil himself" perform the task.