paying for their drinks, stingy jack encouraged the devil to turn himself into a gold coin so that he could use it to pay for the drinks; but instead he placed the coin in his pants pocket next to a silver cross, meaning the devil was unable to change back into his true self. after some time, jack set the devil free but made him promise not to bother jack for at least 1 year and that if jack should die, the devil would not claim his soul.
a year passed and jack and the devil met once more… jack tricked the devil into climbing a tree to pick some fruit 