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- Categories:Animal, Folklore
Description
I read the story a long time ago in a local newspaper. It's old
Pennsylvania folklore about a man who enjoys gambling on horse
races so much that he makes a deal with the devil to win the races
he bets on, the price being his soul of course. Thinking himself
more clever than the devil, he builds a private tomb on the
Pennsylvania and Virgina (or West Virginia) state line so that when
he dies the devil would have to get extradition rights from each
state to take his soul. Unfortunately for him the devil somehow
gets the rights from both states simultaneously and proceeds to
take Reddick's soul. A chase ensues inside the tomb with Reddick
outrunning the devil until the devil tires of the chase and because
of Reddick's speed, turns him into a horse. For the rest of
eternity he must run races with the devil as his owner and when he
wins he's allowed to visit his family, but only in the form of a
horse.
The original story (which is much longer and better detailed) was
supposed to be published in some book about Pennsylvania folklore.
I've forgotten the name of the book though.
originally posted by Rown on 2005-10-02, no edits, entryid=1256
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