The Lottery and Other Stories
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Who created the black box
Who created the black box
From the text:
Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box. There was a story that the present box had been made with some pieces of the box that had preceded it, the one that had been constructed when the first people settled down to make a village here.
The Lottery