A Devilish Murder? – Inside History magazine

John Ruff’s death in 1842 on an island off the Nova Scotia coast was ruled an accident – until his eleven-year-old son accused his older brothers of murder. But Benjamin Ruff had other stories to tell, of seeing the devil lurking on their remote farm. The strange-but-true story of a murder trial that hinged on a child’s claims of satanic visitations. 

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