Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Charleston - Gullah Culture, Traditions & Speech



Sweetgrass Baskets




Gullah Superstions:

From Charleston Footprints:  The term “hant” is an old Gullah word referring to a ghostly presence, not “haint”. And from the Gullah traditions, one of the most menacing hants was the “Plat-eye”, a ghost who entered peoples’ bodies and made them do awful things. The Plat-eye’s only weakness was that it could not cross over water, and thus, many houses in the remote areas around Charleston long featured sea-blue paint around door and window frames.

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