The Devil and Tom Walker

-It was said that a treasure was buried by Boston, Massachusetts in Charles Bay. It was under a tree and buried by a pirate. The old stories said that the devil posses the treasure and all other treasure that was stolen. The pirate died and never came back to get his treasure.
-Tom Walker- New England, him and his wife are miserable. His wife sometimes beats him, she was a scolding women and many people just left them alone b/c they didn't know how to help.
-One day Tom took a shortcut through the swamp- it was a mistake and he had to stop and rest by an old tree. It was here that the Indians had a fort during the wars w/ the colonists, it was said that the Indians put charms or spells on things along with sacrifices to the evil spirit.
-When Tom puts his stick in the ground he finds a skull and an ax. He hears a voice and it tells him to leave the skull alone. The man is swarthy and dingy and covered in soot. He has an ax on his shoulder and has great Red eyes.
-All of the trees in the swamp have a name of a wealthy person carved on it. They are all dead people. The tree is axed and when the devil wants him dead he will ax the tree all the way down.
-The devil told him of the buried treasure under the old oak tree and that the devil protected it. Tom thought about this and wondered if their was a way he could get the treasure.
- Tom questions the devil on who he really is and the devil puts his finger on Tom' s forehead. When he returned home he found a burn on his forehead.
-Absolom Crowinsheid had just died and Tom had seen the tree in the swamp hacked down by the devil.
-Tom tells his wife about the devil and she tells him to become his helper to get the treasure. He doesn't want to please her so he says no.
- Tom's wife decides to get the treasure herself, she wants the treasure and will not give any to Tom. She comes back b/c the devil says she has to give up everything she owns. The next day she goes again but doesn't return home. Nobody knows what happened just that their are many stores. All Tom found was his wife's heart and liver in her apron in a tree.
-Tom thinks that his wife must have put up a good fight for the devil. He is almost happy to have her gone.
-Tom agrees to do anything for the devil for the treasure.
-Tom becomes a broker in Boston and charges high interest and drives people to bankruptcy, he brings them to the devil.
-He grows old and realizes what a mistake he has made. He decides to change his life and become closer to God.
-One night he is talking to a client and he says the devil take me and he doesn't have his bible on him. The devil comes on a black horse and takes him away. They go back to the swamp and it lights on fire. Nobody really knows what happened but Tom was never seen again.