{"id":2349,"date":"2010-07-02T16:24:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T22:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/?page_id=2349"},"modified":"2010-07-02T17:59:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T23:59:45","slug":"the-devils-wagon-by-bernice-sills-britt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/stories\/the-devils-wagon-by-bernice-sills-britt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Devil’s Wagon by Bernice Sills Britt"},"content":{"rendered":"

of Castalia, Nash County, NC<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Submitted by:\u00a0 Margaret Strickland<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Posted:\u00a0 2 July 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a place on Highway 56 between Castalia and Louisburg called Flat Rock and there\u2019re plenty of flat rocks there.\u00a0 My father, ERNEST SILLS, <\/strong>said as a teenager he would go by Flat Rock to get to his friend\u2019s house.\u00a0 They played cards at his friend\u2019s house.\u00a0 My daddy had promised his folks that he was going to stop playing cards, but he went to play again after he said he\u2019d stop.<\/p>\n

After they finished playing cards he had to walk home by Flat Rock.\u00a0 Before he got to the flat rocks he heard this mule and wagon in the air over his head.\u00a0 He lived on rocky land, and it sounded just like a wagon going through Grandfather\u2019s farm, bumping and knocking and hitting on rocks.\u00a0 He stopped.\u00a0 When he stopped, the noise stopped.\u00a0 He\u2019d walk on, trying to get home, past that noise.\u00a0 The nearer he got to Flat Rock, the more bumpy and rugged that wagon would go, mules and all.\u00a0 He stopped again.\u00a0 The noise would stop.\u00a0 He looked up, and didn\u2019t see anything.\u00a0 He listened.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t hear anything while he was standing still.\u00a0 He\u2019d take off and the noise would take off over his head.\u00a0 Rough and rocky, the mules would run; and it sounded like the wagon was hitting every rock.\u00a0 He ran fast as he could through the flat rocks.\u00a0 As he got on the other side, down the road past the flat rocks, the noise stopped.<\/p>\n

He figured it was the devil after him for playing cards.\u00a0 He never did go back to play cards anymore.<\/p>\n

[from NCAC Oral History Project, Nash County Arts Council]\u00a0 Also, published in in THE CONNECTOR, (Summer 2001)]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

of Castalia, Nash County, NC Submitted by:\u00a0 Margaret Strickland Posted:\u00a0 2 July 2010 There\u2019s a place on Highway 56 between Castalia and Louisburg called Flat Rock and there\u2019re plenty of flat rocks there.\u00a0 My father, ERNEST SILLS, said as a…<\/p>\n

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