The Crossroads
The famous version of this story now attached to blues musician Robert Johnson was actually originally told about a different, earlier musician, in an interview recorded decades later — Johnson himself never claimed any such bargain, and the story was transplanted onto him only after his own death.
David Evans's 1966 interview recording the crossroads story as originally told about Tommy Johnson, published 1971
A widely known American folk belief that supernatural power or skill can be gained by striking a bargain at a rural crossroads at midnight.