According to an English legend, when the 10th-century saint Dunstan was working as a blacksmith, Satan asked him to shoe his horse. However, Dunstan instead nailed the shoe to the Devil's hoof. The saint only released him when Satan swore to never enter a house with a horseshoe nailed to the door.
🎨 George Cruikshank

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