Hello, gentle listener, and welcome to Nocturnal Transmissions, the fortnightly podcast that brings you dark tales, both old and new, performed by voice artist, Kristen Holland.

Beelzebob, Lucifer, Old Nick, Nephistopheles, tempter, Prince of Darkness, Old scratch, Lord of the Flies, Diablo, the evil one, Abaddon and Apollion, father of lies, the dragon, the adversary, the beast, Satan, serpent, archfiend.

The devil. He gets so many names and so many stories.

Oh dear, here's another one.

Nocturnal transmissions is proud to present

Billy Bagbones,

a folk tale by Dan Fields. There's an old song about Billy Bagbones.

I bet most of you know it, but it's only a little bit of the story.

I've got cousins way out in the country

whose people were neighbors with his folks.

When I was little,

my great Anne Winnie told me

all of it,

the way she heard it

when she was just a little older than me.

A long time ago in the foothills thick with trees,

a few miles south of where we are tonight,

a little boy lived in a falling down cabin.

His name was Billy Boggs.

His daddy brewed moonshine from corn and dogwood bark and pine cones to sell in town but kept too much for himself to make much money

his mama took in sewing and laundry even though she couldn't keep herself clean to begin with.

Billy's granny lived there too and bought tobacco to chew with money that could have fed the family better.

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