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To: cloudmountain

From wiki;

“Old Scratch or Mr. Scratch is a folk name for The Devil in the local legends of New England and pre-Civil War America.[1] It is possible that the local legends containing this name were influenced by Faustian stories brought to North America by German immigrants.

Old Scratch is also referred to in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, in The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo by Rudyard Kipling, in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, in The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope, in Miracle Monday by Elliot S. Maggin, in Alan Wake by Remedy Entertainment, Dirty Jobs episode 1.28 (”Coal Miner”), The Witches of Eastwick (film), and in The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving.”

9 posted on 05/05/2014 6:29:21 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)

To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Thanks, Doc. I guess that name always slid by my ears.

I'm attuned now.

10 posted on 05/05/2014 6:31:00 AM PDT by cloudmountain

To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

He go by Legba now...

(obscure quote from the movie “Crossroads”...)

31 posted on 05/05/2014 6:50:56 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)

To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; cloudmountain