While all attention is drawn to her, she gazes downward, keeping a constant watch over her commissioner below. This is the Black Angel, a folk legend here in Iowa City. An icon of the cemetery since ...

100 years after Teresa Dolezal Feldevert’s ashes were laid to rest beneath it, the Black Angel of Oakland Cemetery continues to captivate Iowa City. One hundred years ago, Teresa Dolezal Feldevert ...

In the bowels of Tepito, the so-called “bravo neighborhood” of Mexico City, emerges the cult of the Black Angel, a devotion to the devil full of rituals and symbolized by an imposing altar ...