POLK LORE: POLK TALES (Negro)
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	“Lfter dat when us chilluns seed de Ku Klux a cornin‘, us would take aa‘ run breadneck speed to de nearest wood. Dar we would stay till dey wuz plum out o‘ sig~it and you could not even hear de horses feet. Dem days wuz wors‘n de war. Yes Lawd, dey wuz worse‘n any war I is ebber heard o1~.

	“Was not long after dat l‘ore de spooks wuz a gwine round ebber whar. When you would ~o out atter dark, sornethin‘ would start to a haintin‘ ye. You would ~it so scairt dat you would mighty ni run every time you went out atter dark; even iffin you didn‘t see nothin‘. Chile, don‘t axe me what I seed. Atter all dat kuhn‘ and. a burnin‘ you know you wuz bliged to see things wid all dein spirits in distress a swine all over de land. You see, it is like dis~ when a man gits killed beTh he is done what de good Lawd intended fer him to do, he cornes back here arid tries to find who done him wrthn~. I mean be don‘ come back hisseif, but de spirit, it is what comes and wanders around. Course, it can‘t do nothin‘, so it jus scares folks and haints dem.“


SOURCE:	“Aunt“ Millie Bates, 25 Hamlet street, Union, SC.
Interviewer:	Caldwell Sims, Union, S.C.