The Devil's Pact

6: Black Cat Bone

This is what voodoo man Earl Marlowe told me about selling your soul to the Devil:

“If you wanna make a contract with the Devil, first thing you gotta do is trim yo’ finger nails close as you can. Take a Black Cat Bone and a guitar and go to a lonely crossroads at midnight.

[MY NOTE: Re the Black Cat Bone - don't hurt cats, use chicken bones instead and paint them black; if you hurt a cat I'll personally come and shoot you with one of those massive Desert Eagle Hebrew-made guns].

Sit down there and play your best riff. As you do so think and wish for the Devil to come. By the by, you will hear music in the cold distance, quiet at first, but gettin’ louder and louder as the musician come closer.

Do NOT look around: Just keep playin’ yo’ guitar.

The invisible guitar player will eventually sit down by you and play in unison with you. After a while, you will hear something alive tugging at your guitar. Do NOT try to hold on to it. Let the Devil take it and keep strumming along with your fingers as if you still had the guitar in your hands.

Soon enough the Devil will hand you his instrument to play and will accompany you on your guitar. Again you’ll be playin’ riffs in unison.

After a time, he’ll grab your hands and trim your fingernails until they bleed. Do NOT be afraid. Finally, Ole Satan will take his guitar back, and give you back yours.

Keep on playing. And do NOT look around. His music will become fainter and fainter as he walks away into the distance.

When it’s all quiet, you can go home.

You’ll find you can play anything you want to on the guitar. And you’ll be able to do anything you want in this world. But you have sold your eternal soul to the Devil and you will be his in the world to come.”