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Posted By: and e
11-Jun-20 - 09:03 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Dig a hole to put the devil in
Subject: RE: Origins: Dig a hole to put the devil in
The Dublin Literary Gazette and National Magazine, July to December 1830. Pg 645.
'God made man, an' man made money;
God made bees, an' bees made money;
God made Satan, an' Satan made sin;
An' God made a hole to put Satan in.'


This is quoted as part of a story... so it is earlier than 1830.