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In The Devil and Tom Walker, Tom Walker meets a Black Man in the forest and the man tells of buried treasure, and Tom can have it – for a price. Tom agrees to swindle people for the Devil, and agrees to give the Devil his soul. While he quickly gained many riches of this world, he began to worry about the next and regretted making the deal with the Devil. Finally he tells one of his customers, "The devil take me if I have made a farthing!", and so the devil took him. This short story is an American folk tale because it has unrealistic events, it expresses a general truth about life, and has stereotypical characters that embody a single human trait.
Most American folktales have unrealistic or unlikely events that are intertwined with the main story; this is certainly true about The Devil and Tom Walker. In the story, Tom happens across the Devil: "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......

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