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immersed and. corne up “shoutin“'. ~innie thought they was “fightiri‘ the Preacher“ so she dithi‘t ~o back anyniore.

Ltthnie firmly believes if a woman comes in your ho~ise first on New Years Day, it will bring you bad Itick, arid she baa ~a1ked as far as 10 miles to ~et a man in her ho~18e first. If she meets a cross eyed. person, she crosses her fingers and srits on them to break the bad spell. “liooten‘ owls“ are mire the sign o~ death and ~he always barns her hair oonthi~is because if you jt.ist throw them away and the birds ~et them to ~it in tbeir nests, you‘ll have a 8w~j~derin‘ mind.“ ~

Mthnie is 72 :~Tears old, very active physically and r~entaUy, lives among the/VieL:roe~ now b~i~ greatly misses her “white folks.l?


Minnia Green

5&D~3 East Chappell $treet

Griffin, OEeor~ia

~ut~ust ‘1, 1936.
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