Gullah Home with Haint Blue Shutters Daufuskie Island South Carolina

by Dawna Moore Photography

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Gullah Home with Haint Blue Shutters Daufuskie Island South Carolina

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Dawna Moore Photography

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Photograph - Nature And Travel Photography

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"Known as the Gullah or Geechee people, the original Haint Blue creators were descendants of African slaves who worked on rice plantations in South Carolina and Georgia. Many of their ancestors came from Angola, which may be where the name Gullah originated. Haints, or haunts, are spirits trapped between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Legend says these angry spirits cannot cross water. The safest place would be in an underwater bubble, or perhaps to surround your house with a moat. But the Gullah people had a much more elegant solution. They would dig a pit in the ground, fill it with lime, milk, and whatever pigments they could find, stir it all together, and paint the mixture around every opening into their homes. The haints, confused by these watery pigments, are tricked into thinking they can’t enter. Today, in cities and towns throughout the south, one will find these blues and greens tints on shutters, doors, porch ceilings and windowsills, gracing many historic homes." (historyofthingstocome.com)

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July 21st, 2014

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