Teensy Tiny Tales

The Devil's Footprint

There’s lots who say it was a mass hallucination, or a story concocted to scare the townsfolk of Ipswich into church on a Sunday morning. But I know it all happened. I was here.

The Reverend Whitfield, he did preach a fiery sermon. It riled up the evil spirits until they manifested and it became an actual physical fight between them. Whitfield was strong and unyielding. He struggled with evil and chased it to the top of the steeple, then threw it from the tower.

There’s the mark seared into the rock. It’s real. I know, because that’s my footprint.



Word Count: 100

Written for "The Micro-Fiction Challenge" 

Prompt: An urban legend

You must incorporate information about a real or fabricated urban legend in your story.

The Devil's Footprint is an urban legend from Ipswich, MA. The imprint of a cloven hoof can still be seen today on the rocks in front of the church. More info and photos of the footprint can be found at this link:
https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/chronicle-transcript/2014/05/19/column-story-i...