The Devil and Tom Walker.

A pirate named Kidd buried a treasure near the swamp long ago. He was hung and therefore never came back to retrieve it. The Devil now watches over it.
-Tom Walker and his wife live in England, but are not vey well off. They are greedy and always try to cheat each other out of money.
-One day Tom cuts through the swamp because it is faster in order to reach his home. When he comes across a fort he decides to sit down for a moment to rest. He begins to start poking around with his staff in the mold or rotten vegetables.
-Then his staff comes across something hard which is found to be an old Indian skull with tomahawk and all.
-While he is looking at it he hears a voice warning him to leave it be.
-The stanger appears, but does not seem to be of any race. Not Indian nor negro, but with black all over the figure.
Devil's appearance- black har, dingy and sooty face, an axe over his shoulder. Also, Red Eyes.
-He began to notice thast the trees in the forest all had names on them which portrayed the lives of people. The devil had control over the lives.
-When he finds out about the treasure he wants it and begins to ponder what he could do to get it.
-The devil leaves a fingerprint on his forehead that will not go away.
-When Tom returns home he tells his wife of this encounter and she wants the treasure for her own. She wants him to sell his soul so they can have it.
-He will not thouugh, but only because he wants to disagree with his wife. She then decides sh will go on her own then.
-She meets with the devil and has to come back with a "propitiatory" offering or all of that she owned that had value. She went again and was never seen again. Many stories weree told on what happned to her, but no one can know for sure.
-It was said that Tom went bcak and found his wife's apron with a heart and liver inside not the valuables as expected.
-Tom thought that the devil had killed her, but she put up a fight since he found some of her hair. (May have been because she was so sassy and greedy). Tom was actually relieved that his wife was gone it was one more thing off his back.
-Tom then decides he will do anything to get the treasure so he does make the promise. He becomes a broker/usurer in Boston and becomes very rich.
-He did things that would impress others like building a big house.
*He begins to start fearing his afterlife when he gets older. This results in him becoming an avid churchgoer and seems to go a little mad.
-A customer that he had driven penniless makes him angry one day when he makes the uge mistake of saying "The devil take me if I have made a far thing!" or that if he had made even a penny. (sarcastic) The devil then appears and takes him away by horse to the swamp. It is said by some that he was taken to the fort and it burst into flames leaving his belongings to ash.