The Devil and Tom Walker

-Boston, Massachusetts
-There was a pirate named Kidd that had buried treasure and money.
-Tom's wife did whatever she could to hide and keep things from him and she had a really bad temper.
-Tom went to visit Old Fort (there, Indians held verbal charms or spells recited to produce a magic effect and made sacrifices to the evil spirit).
-While he was there he discovered a skull with an Indian tomahawk buried in it.
-A strange man appeared and told Tom to leave the skull alone. He also wanted to know why Tom was there on his grounds in the first place.
-Tom pretty much just said that he was passing through and found the skull there. But the man did not want him to take or even touch the skull because it was on his grounds that Deacon Peabody gave him so he could cut down the timber.
-The man told Tom that he was the devil. Tom swore to him that he would not tell of him or of his grounds and what is secretly buried there.
-Tom did not keep his word. As soon as he got home he spilled the beans to his wife and she went crazy. She wanted this treasure to herself. She told Tom to go find it and bring it home for her and he refused; so she left on her own to find it herself.
-The most "current and probable story" of what happened to Tom's wife is, that he went out to look for her because she did not come home. He found her tied in a bundle up in a tree. What was left of her was her heart and her liver, in her apron, up in the tree. Instead of grieving over his wife; Tom thought of this more as a gesture than a favor.