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Appalachian Granny Magic Tradition by Ginger Strivelli (
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) (snip) The spirits of the dead are often worked with as well, a lot of ancestral spirit guide workings are passed down through our Tradition,those practices trace back to not only Scotland and Ireland, but the Tsalagi Nation as well. 'Haints' are widely feared as 'angry' ancestral spirits, and many spells, charms, and rituals are practiced to keep these troublemakers at bay. One of the most interesting and common haint related spells requires that the doors of a home be painted 'haint blue.' Haint Blue is a bright baby blue with a periwinkle tinge, very close to but about one shade darker than the Carolina Tarheels' Blue color. This color is believed to repel the spirits and keep them out of the home. Here we see a beautiful commonality between Anglo-Irish and Native American (Tsalagi = Cherokee) beliefs that the spirits of the dead are angry or troublemakers. This does NOT accord with
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