Ex-~slaye Stories	Page Six
(Texas)






	9 I met my wife down on Bl~.ck Creek, ~nd I freighted two ye2rs after we was married. We got marriedsolong a~o,but in them days any~ thing would do • You see ‚ the se clays they ers so proud, but we was glad. to h~?Te ai~ything. I had. a black suit to be itarried in, and a pzetty long shirt, and I wore boots. She wore a white dress, bu~ in them days they d.‘ have black shoes • Yes ~ they had a dance, down here on Black Creek. Danced half the night at her house aiid two men pl~red the fiddle. Eat? We had. e~erythln‘ to eat, a barbecued calf. and ~. hog, too, aid ~ll kinds of ca~ces ~nd pies. Drink? ~Thy, the men had whiskey to drink ~nd the women drank coffee. We married about 7 or 8 in the evenint at her house. My wife‘ s naine was Sarah Ann Brackins.

	‘1Did. I ~ee ~‚ £host? Well, over yonder on the creek was a ghost. I t was a moonl ight night 2nd 1 t passe d right by me and it never had no head on it s~t2ll. It almost breshed me. It kep‘ walkin1 right by side of me. I shore saw it arid. I run like a good fellow. Lots of ten could see wonrmrfu]. sights then and. I heered lots of noises, but~ th&t~s the only ghost I ever seen.

	“No, I never knowed. nothing ~bout charms. I~ve seen tera have a rabbit heel or coon heel for good luck. I seen a ~aan one birne that was tricked, or whet I‘d. call poisoned. A place on her let, lt was jes‘ the

~	shape of these little old strip~d lizards. It was somethint they called

ttrickin tt,~ and a person that knowed to tric*: you would put ~t there to

~	~ a&k. you suffer the balance of y~ir da~rs. It would go around y~it~ix leg clear

~ .	to the hip ana. be between the skin and the flesh. The7 called it the

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