The Devil and Tom Walker
The Devil and Tom Walker
what details suggested that he comes fot the region of hellfire? what details refer to the devil's special dealings in america?
what details suggested that he comes fot the region of hellfire? what details refer to the devil's special dealings in america?
1) It is true he was dressed in a rude half-Indian garb, and had a red belt or sash swathed round his body; but his face was neither black nor copper-color, but swarthy and dingy, and begrimed with soot, as if he had been accustomed to toil among fires and forges.
2) In this neighborhood I am he to whom the red men consecrated this spot, and in honor of whom they now and then roasted a white man, by way of sweet-smelling sacrifice. Since the red men have been exterminated by you white savages, I amuse myself by presiding at the persecutions of Quakers and Anabaptists; I am the great patron and prompter of slave dealers, and the grand master of the Salem witches.”
The Devil and Tom Walker
What details refer to the devils dealings in America?