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vail. I heared this thing when it comes down m the yard when it walked up on the porch with these shoes on just a hitting—just a-vvalking and it entile on in and 1 swear to goodness this is the truth. 1 swear I ain't never believed nothing else— and it eome on in and 1 eomnieneed to jump up and I couldn t. It just paralyzed me. 1 couldn't move and lie rolled on me and like to heat me to death. 1 was sure lor two or three days. That’s the truth. All up in my hack and nhs like to stomped me to death. And about tiie tune 1 did get my strength to get up and jumped up to get him and lie run. Never did—could get a-hold of him. Was a little bitty man wasn’t much higher than that. That's the truth. Mad on shoes and lie liked to beat me tndeath. That's the truth. And 1 believe it was a nightmare. That's what 1 think it was "
The Devil Rides Out
of the Mountain
“These men what was fighting in the ( iv il War vv it li t his woman’s father were down at a little place called Mount Pony, above Culpeper on a hill, said the devil rode straight down off that mountain in a blaze of fire. That's the truth. 1 declare it is. That story’s right out today. You ask any of them old heads. They’ll tell you that’s true.
"(The woman who told me) is dead and gone but her father seen it and a lot of other soldiers that were in the War said it was certainly true; said t he devil rode off Mount I’onv into a cloud of dust on a bloodied horse right straight dow n off that mountain. They said they never saw such a fall of dust in all the days of their life."
Cora Talks About
Devil’s Staircase
“The Devils staircase- that was on Mr. Wood's place. And the higher you went up you'd just get so high up and you just couldn't make it any further. It would kinda do something fo you—get vpp nervous and shaky like that. My brother tried to go up there. Well, it got blacker and blacker—higher you w ent up it just got blacker and blacker and then he got nervous and—just like something or other got ahold of him, he said, he just got nervous and couldn't go no further. You go right up the stones cut...steps cut right in the stone. It was made when the world was made and no one has been able to go up there. No one.”
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