Editing Crossroads (folklore) (section)

==In modern fiction==
===Blues songs===
[[File:ClarksdaleMS Crossroads.jpg|thumb|right|The crossroad of [[U.S. Route 61]] and [[U.S. Route 49]] in [[Clarksdale, Mississippi]], one claimant to be where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the devil]]
Some 20th-century [[blues]] songs may be about making a deal with the devil at the crossroads. Many modern listeners believe that the premier song about soul-selling at a crossroads is "[[Cross Road Blues]]" by [[Robert Johnson]]. According to [[Robert Johnson#Devil legend|a legend]], Johnson himself sold his soul at a crossroads in order to learn to play the guitar. This is chronicled in the Netflix documentary ''[[ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads]]''. However, the song's lyrics merely describe a man trying to [[Hitchhiking|hitchhike]]; the sense of foreboding has been interpreted as the singer's apprehension of finding himself, a young black man in the 1920s deep south, alone after dark and at the mercy of passing motorists.<ref>{{cite book |last=Litwack |first=Leon F |title=Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow |publisher=New York: Vintage Books |year=1998 |pages=410–411}}</ref>