The Devil and Tom Walker

Boston, Mass
* Oak tree with a lot of $ buried by a pirate
- people say the devil hid the $, but Kidd never returned to the spot because he was hung for being a pirate.

* Tom and his wife didn't get along
* There house was bad; iron bars, scary trees, looked like it was haunted
* Tom took a shortcut through the woods home through a swamp, when he stopped by an old Indian village, when he was sitting he found an old Tomahawk
* A guy comes from behind and is angry with him. He is a black Indian.
* Black Indian goes by many different names: Wild hunter,Black miner
* Talks to the Quakers and Anabaptists
* They had a long talk and became friends. Black guy told him about the $
* He gets home and tells his wife about the gold and then she tells him she wants him to get it. But the more she tells him and wants him to get it the less he wants to go so he doesn't have to make her happy.
* The wife then decides to go and talk with the Indian. She goes but comes back empty handed. So she goes back with everything she owned and never returns. Tom is scared for her safety.
* Many stories come up about what happened to her:
- She go stuck in the swamp.
- Tall black guy came out of the swamp with ax and a bag of stuff.
- Tom went back to get her and when he got to the tree a vulture had an apron ad her liver and heart in the tree.
*Tom thought that the black man helped with his wife's dying. He wanted to pay him back.
* Black man says he has to open a brokers shop in Boston.
* At his office everyone hears about him.
* Everyone went to him so this means he is rich and took all there $.
* He started being a begger
* He also started going to church and being a LOUD Christian.
* As he got older he got crazy.
* One day when he was old and finishing a deal there was a knock on his door the black man was there. The black man took him away and he was NEVER SEEN AGAIN!