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The Devil and the Farmer's Wife

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5
Page count: 10

Author

Scott
Sanders

Appeared in

Hear the Wind Blow: American Folk Songs Retold

Story Summary

An imported Scots ballad set in Illinois about a women who's to nasty even for the devil.