... for example, is about the Wieland family and all of the paranormal events that happen to them. Next is "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving. This short story is "the first to seize the American imagination."58 This is a tale of a man who goes into mountains to hunt, and, while there, ... he falls asleep, but for twenty years.59 Irving also wrote two other chilling folk tales about the supernatural. "The Devil and Tom Walker," which is very similar to the Puritan writings, is about the "black woodsman," or the Devil.60 Just as in Puritan life, the forest is seen as evil where ... join T...

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