The warlock of the pee dee river

Most
 people believe in evil in some form or another. Whether it be a
supernatural "Devil" they hear about in church, or a serial killer they
read about in the paper or watch on TV most people know in their hearts
that evil exists. The people who lived around the Pee Dee River in
Richmond County many years ago didn't question if evil exists, they had
evil living among them.

His name was Harvey and he was a warlock, or a male witch. He settled
 in Richmond county on the banks of the Pee Dee River when he was was
already an old man. Over time, he got to know many of the farmers in the
 area and their families. At first, most people pitied the enfeebled
elderly man. He would ask for things such as flour or milk and people
were kind enough to oblige. Over time, his requests became greater, then
 became demands with horrible consequences if they weren't met.

One Day Harvey came to call on his neighbor Sally while she was
milking her prized cow. After a few minutes of small talk, Harvey
demanded sally give him the cow. A request that she flatly refused.
Disgusted, Harvey walked away with the words "You'd better give her to
me. She'll never do you any good". Sally dismissed the words as the
ramblings of a old man.

However, the next day she was horrified to find her cow had stopped
eating and was now giving blood instead of milk. Day after day, the cow
lost weight from not eating and gave only blood when milked. Finally,
Sally had enough and delivered her animal to Harvey. She was scared what
 he would do to her and her farm. Her fear was overruled by her concern
for her animal, so the next day she went to Harvey's place to check on
the animal.

There she found her cow eating plenty and giving buckets of milk.
Anger shot through body as she verbally tore into Harvey and threatened
to take her cow back. Harvey told Sally if she did, it would be dead
before she reached her farm. Not wanted to test the old man's powers
further, Sally left, but not before telling the warlock not to come back
 to her farm.

Harvey avoided Sally, but only for a few weeks. One day while she was
 feeding her hog, she turned to see Harvey looking at her. She order him
 to leave. He agreed, but only if she gave him the pig. Sally refused.
Again, Harvey told her the pig would do her no good. She cursed him and
told him to get off her land. Harvey left, but as soon as he got to the
edge of the forrest that separated his home from her farm, Sally's pig
dropped dead.

Enraged at the death of her animal, but fearful of what Harvey may do
 next, Sally buried her hog and sought the advice of a neighbor. Her
neighbor suggested drawing a picture of Harvey and shoot it where she
wanted the warlock to experience pain. When she was satisfied, she could
 take the picture down and the old man would recover.

Back at home, Sally drew a life size picture of her tormentor and
attached it to the side of her barn and shot the image in the shoulder.
The next day she visited Harvey and found him with a tremendous pain in
his shoulder, exactly where she shot the picture. Feeling the warlock
deserved the punishment, day after day Sally shot the drawing and day
after day Harvey felt the pain.

Then one day Sally found the old man in seriously ill. Feeling she
had done enough Sally returned home to take down the drawing. However,
as she got closer to home, a storm came up and Sally ran for the safety
of her home intending to take down the picture the next day.

She never got the chance...

The next morning she discovered a bolt of lightning had burned her
barn to the ground, the image along with it. Thinking that Harvey would
now get better, she hurried to his place to see for herself. There she
found a crowd of neighbors gathered outside. They informed her of
Harvey's imminent death. She went in just to hear his last wish of being
 buried under a walnut tree between his dog and mule. "Bury me just
after dinner" he whispered. "When lightning strikes the tree, you'll
know I'm in Hell".

Early in the evening, as he requested, Harvey was buried under the
tree. The neighbors didn't stick around long due to a eerie storm cloud
on the horizon. Just as he predicted, lightning struck the tree where he
 was buried.

Did Harvey finally meet the Devil? I traveled to Richmond County to
take the pictures you see below. I'm not sure where his place was
supposed to be, and I didn't stick around too long. After all, I might
have something the warlock covets... What if he had come back to ask for
 it?