The Devil and Tom Walker

Tom stopped to rest at the old fort. Few people would stop there because it was believed to be a place where the spirits lived.... the place where the Indians held incantations and made sacrifices.

It was late in the dusk of evening when Tom Walker reached the old fort, and he paused there awhile to rest himself. Any one but he would have felt unwilling to linger in this lonely, melancholy place, for the common people had a bad opinion of it, from the stories handed down from the times of the Indian wars, when it was asserted that the savages held incantations here and made sacrifices to the Evil Spirit.