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Prom Field ~otes	3~r‘~~r	 ~ ~Ç ~S	edited by:
Spartanburg, Dist.4	 ~	\J ‚.‚ •	Elmer Turnage ~
April	2..	193?

.	FOLK LORE: FOLK TALES (n~egro)


	ni sho members when de soldiers corne home from de war. All de women ±oìks, both black as well as shite wuz so glad to see ‘em back dat we jus jumpec. up arid hollered ‘Oh, Lawdy, God bless you. ‚ When you would look around a little, you would see some wid out an arm or maybe dey would be a waltin‘ wid a cruch or a stick. Den you would cry some wii~ut lettin your white folkasee you. But Jane,de worseet time o~ all fer us d.arkies wuz when de Ku Klux killed Dan Black. We wuz little chilluns a playin‘ in Dans house. We didn‘t know he had done riothin‘ ~inst de white folks. Us wuz a playiri by de fire jus as nice when something hit on de wall. Dan, he jump up and try to ~it outten de winder. A white spooky thing had done come in de ~ right by me. I was so scairt dat I could not git up. I had done fell straight out on de flo‘. When Dan. stick his head uutten dat winder something say bans and he ±~el1 right down in de Lb‘. I crawles under de bed. 7~hen I ~ot dar, all de other chilluns wuz dar to,lookin‘ a~ white as ashec. dough frol hickory wood. Us peeped out and den us duck under de bed a~in. Ain‘t no bed ebber done as much good. as dat one. Den. a whole lot of dem some in de house. De wuz all white and scairy lookin‘. It still makes de shivvers run down my spine and here I is ole and you all a settin“ around wid me and two mo‘ wars done cone since dat awful time. Dan Black, he wo‘tit no mo‘ kaise de took dat nigger arid hung him to a simmon tree. Dey would not let his folks take hirn down either. He jus stayed áar till he fell to pieces.