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YLCRU~Z ~J?1I1~S was born of ex.
sisys parents in DeK:alb, Nxas. She talk~ of ~ptriti, ghowts and apel].., reciting tucl&ents tol.i. her by her father and itother, who wer. .uppossd to have th• “power and the epirit“ She 1t~es with a daighter at 102D W. Weatherford St., Port Worth, Pexas,



	“Does I believe in de ghostiee? I sho‘ does and I telle youi wt~ I knowe dere a~ ghostiee. Firat, t~s hear end. see dem and lots of other folk. I‘ataiJced. to has. Den ~y papp~ and my ~arny both could eee dee, ~nd dey has special powera, but dey was good. power., Dey has no uae for de evil apall. all all .ich.

	“In de old. day. ‘fore surrender de cu.llud folk. talks ‘bout ghosties and~ hante ‚ but e~ncs •thtecation ~pi for de oullud folks ‚ come of dem lam. to say spirit, ‘ate~j of ghost. Now dey has de c~rch dat sa~ de preacher kin bring de ghost ~ but dey celle it de epirit to de neetin‘ and talk with ~e*. D~ am de spiritualist-tue cbnrch.

	“I‘S tellin‘ y~~i de thing. I hear. my m~amy and pappy tell, and some

I‘. seed. for ayself What I seei, I kin be de wt~ese for end what my mammy and. p~pp~ say., E kin be de witness for dat, ‘cause I‘. not gwtne lie ‘bou.t what de dead people say..

	“Demi am only one way to best de ghost and it ~i call de Lawd. and he will banish rem. Some folks don‘t know how to best ~ so day gits tan‘Uzed ba&. Der. a man call‘ Everson, end he been ds slave. De ghost come and. t•ll him to go dig in de graveyard for de pot of gold., and. to go by hima.lf. But he am ‘fraid of de gravepard and didn‘t go. So de ghost

~pear. ‘gain, but dat man do~ttt go till de ghost come de third time. So he goes, but he takes two other man with him.
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