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Purgatory Falls and the Devil's Bean Pot

Lyndeborough, NH

Local folklore says the Devil once tried to cook beans beside the falls and left behind a large pothole known as the Devil's Bean Pot along with a nearby footprint-like impression in the rock. The actual landscape is a series of waterfalls and sculpted bedrock reached by hiking trails. The folklore gives an already unusual natural site a distinctly OddWay story.

Filed under folklore: stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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