Plat-Eye Interviews

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[SPEAKER_01]: Ahoi, and welcome aboard the Afro-Tails package.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I am in Greel, a mind-mazinger.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Here to guide you through captivating tales rooted in the histories of indigenous and African distinct peoples across the Americas and the Caribbean.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the journey that is not in doubt, I, Chef, will share a delicious recipe and spy it by the stories you have just had.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad I hear you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's up Carolina, Murrow's inlet, and Georgetown County.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Glad I, they say, that I take this shape of all kind of griddle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Dog, cat, hog, mule, vine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I hear a tale of a plan I take in the shape of a guide.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Addy, murals in lead, South Carolina.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Glad I turned to dog, turned the horse, turned back to people, turning too little bird.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The old head tailed me if you tried to run from them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They took you up, though you didn't.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

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[SPEAKER_01]: I met at the peak of your girls in the South Carolina.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This was going home from church.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Came first of the little white cat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Came out of the woods.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Came out in the road.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Those ran.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then, us looked back and there was a little white down in us ran again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And when us looked back next there was a white hole.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And us ran again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then us looked back and then was a white move.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the next it was a red horse.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Came out of wood.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Came in the roof.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When us got the grandpa's house, he said that was a platter.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Me, Ethel, Pickett.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Mirro's in South Carolina.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Addy's plan, I go by the name of Addy, let me tell you about the time I was climbing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The tide came very late in the evening.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was dusk-a-dark when I hit the passenger's lane.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like dusk-a-dark, I was in fear at night of time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I passed the captain's barn and stayed there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was a milking.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I said, good evening,

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he said, good evening.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I passed the graveyard entrance and kept walking.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then leaving the open air, I entered the dark woods.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I brushed weeping moss aside as I traveled and went mud in my bare feet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My shoes were tied to my goodness train.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then I got close to the

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[SPEAKER_01]: foot log of an old cypress tree.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He blew down in the big september game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I saw Mr. Bullfrog in the water.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Good luck.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the cooler came sliding off the log at Matty.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I looked at the cooler

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[SPEAKER_01]: with eyes, like bowls of fire, and his back all arched up and his tail twisted and switching and his hair standing on him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He moved backward and crossed the sniper's love.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was big.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Biggest, my little healing ox, and I talked to him and I tried to drop clothes and I told him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I fear nothing, ain't no good, no hand, no platter, I fear nothing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I try to sing, he carries me through, me near danger, because he first loved me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He guards me against, hang the platter,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because he first loved me, that that I and give me back a word.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He moved forward and his tail switched and switched, saying like a big Marcus and tail, flashing the rushes and I brings up my short hand a little clam break was in my hand and I sang.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I go to take care of me, walking through my dangers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Go to take care of me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I raised my clear neck and I can't write a quote.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's crazy it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My neck was bed deep in the loud.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I declare to God,

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[SPEAKER_01]: them eyes, band and holes in me, and they're tearless fishing, like old spooks tear when the flies are bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If that had been a real cat, I'd have pinned him to that love.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I struggled

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[SPEAKER_01]: straight of law.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I raised my ring and down I came straight through that critters middle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's dumb and bolder like the little puff of toe fish.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But that critter ain't feel my leg and I will wrestle like Jacob rest of with

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[SPEAKER_01]: and had my bloom on me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Mr. Platter was just a frisky as before he was here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I abused him and cursed him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I said, you devil, clear my pain.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The creator called the Anne Lose up that big bamboo wire.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I turned back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I hit the path, and I didn't tear.

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[SPEAKER_01]: just as I gave God praise for the living in me the Lord, there was that can.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This time he was because my middle-sized eyes and his eyes were blazing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I limped and I limped and that Rick had no

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[SPEAKER_01]: And just as I made my last lamb, the critter rose up before my eyes, and he was as big as my cousin Andrews' food grown-ups.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then he vanished up there all the time back, now in days when I travel, the deep woods, and the moss is low, and Mr. Kudo and Mr. Micerson Crow, I told Gunpowder and so forth, and I

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll watch my step.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Daddy in the blood I goes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Haddy, may zeal, bunny, sin sin, and the rest of the kids standing open the pine tree.

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[SPEAKER_01]: How did that mean to come over?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I knew there was going to work me over about ghost.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A platter I ghost, going to get you crazy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's insane.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Planock goes, gonna come in your room, hop on your back, and ride your night long.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just like he was all mute.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You'd be thinking, you're having the horribly stream.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, it'd be that old planock ride me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I ain't scared of no planock.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I see.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I crossed my toes inside my shoes, just in case.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I bet you never even seen him on the knee.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the holler that hurt that he had.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it had big red eyes that he saw them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cypress from Brode just about night when he was a little boy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said he and some other guys were walking back from fishing in the creek.

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[SPEAKER_01]: that part that's up around Cyprus swan cold where those corners are now him and his uncle told him he had left his night back at the creek where they'd been fished.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He decided to go back and get it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The others went on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had a bucket full of spots too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But that he said he went back through the swamp grass along the edge of the creek and found his night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was moonlight out, see?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he didn't have no trouble on the way back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He kept thinking something was following him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But when he would look around, he wouldn't see a thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just as he got on to the bridge over the creek,

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[SPEAKER_01]: He felt his back start to get real high right under his shoulder blades.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said it was like two pins were being burning to his back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said when he jumped to one side, he looked back, saw two round eyes, red is blood, and with steam rising from the hangin' out on the air.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not two feet behind.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He started walking backwards from those eyes, trying not to look into them, because a platter I can suck your breath out if it can catch your eyes and hit me time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Still holding on to his knife, in one hand, and the bucking in the other, he hit cross the bridge and didn't stop to it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He called up with Tony.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know what?

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[SPEAKER_01]: All the fish in his buck, it was down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That is it, the platter I got.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and known woman, Plantersville, South Carolina.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Confentations with a platter, I go to the star to be a voodied at all costs, and the marshes and swamps of South Carolina, low-country, particularly around Paul Is Island, Sandy Island, Georgetown, Plantersville.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Charleston and the sea islands.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Some say that a pletite ghost can take the form of a small animal, a vaporic cloud, or an apparition with big red burning coals vines.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In the war hatred, short story, we have pint flask, and unscrupulous man and a pletite have an

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[SPEAKER_01]: where he steals a flask from a grape.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The platter takes the form of the man's lover and tries to drown in the mulch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This concludes the investigation into the platter ghost for now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So these were some great stories, coming from two particular books, the first section coming from the slave ghost stories, tales of hagshains, ghost and diamond back radlers compiled edited by Nancy Ryan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: the daddy in the plaid I ghost comes from talk that talk in anthology of African American storytelling edited by Linda Gals and Marion M. I mean, Marion E. Barnes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: First things I want to say, I had fun trying to figure out how I wanted to put all of these stories together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In the first book, they are done in an interview way, kind of like how some other writers may do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Zorneher Hurston does it in her and one of her books, most of the stories are basically told to her in an interview style.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that's how I wanted to do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got to have fun doing that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When it comes to Platyre Ghost,

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[SPEAKER_01]: They are a being a creature that I want to say comes solely from the Galagigi areas of the South.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're talking from

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[SPEAKER_01]: middle of South Carolina, coastal region all the way down to the bottom of Georgia's coastal region is where you'll find a lot of the gullabyche people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: These stories in particular come from the South Carolina area.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's different beliefs as to how they came about and what reason they're here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Most people believe that plethoraes come from the fact that people were buried in unmarked graves and

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[SPEAKER_01]: pretty much murdered and buried in those graves, whether it be by slave owners or by just other people in general, but normally they are an individual who is violently killed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: These stories, I don't know, the back story for these particular planets.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing in the books that gives you that information.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But they are always normally in a darkly wooded area.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They are.

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[SPEAKER_01]: near swamps and inlets, um, they are near somewhere where if we took it to slavery period, they wouldn't want the slaves to be because

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[SPEAKER_01]: maybe it was a way of escaping slavery, you know, you don't want to slave to be around a lot of water sources freely because, you know, they might have a way to escape your plantation or anything of that nature, especially without supervision.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would think much of like the net-turner story,

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[SPEAKER_01]: and about how he was able to hide out in those type of inlets and swampy areas, think about the maroons, I can't think of the name of the swamp, but there's a swamp I believe in the South Carolina North Carolina that was home to run away slaves for many years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they are just now discovering how and where exactly they were located.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, you spread these stories, spread these ghost stories, and, you know, people are scared to go that way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it is a wonderful story.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is October and I'm glad I got to find me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Share, glad I ghost.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, one more thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In many descriptions, it is a glad I ghost, because there is one giant red eye centered in the middle of the face, almost like a cyclops, but a ghost version.

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[SPEAKER_01]: you know so you know there's that do more research go out and check this thing out um check out the platter goes do not go into the woods looking for one you don't want to end up becoming a platter all right anyway thanks for coming on this journey with me and until next time go see chef here they want a recipe and as always have a blessed day

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[SPEAKER_01]: Look at my friends in the galley, I am your chef, chef, and today we have a wonderful recipe inspired by the story of Josad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Today we will be creating old Fuski fried crab rice.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, what would you need for this lovely interesting recipe?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Two and a quarter cups warm water, a pinch of salt, two strips of bacon, a quarter cup of vegetable oil, one stock celery, chopped, one medium green bell pepper, chopped, one medium

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[SPEAKER_01]: one tablespoon garlic powder and salt and black pepper.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, how do we put this together?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Easy!

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[SPEAKER_01]: First, measure the rice.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then rinse and drain it several times.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Put the rice, water and salt in a medium pot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cover.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Bring to a boil and simmer until the rice is done.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the water is absorbed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: About 20 minutes or more should do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Next, fry the bacon until crispy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When the bacon is done, remove it from the pan, set aside and crumble when cooked.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Add the oil to the bacon fat in a skillet and heat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Add the celery, bell pepper and onion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Stir fry until the onion is clear.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then add the crab and cook until the crab begins to brown.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Another 5 to 10 minutes should do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, add the crumble bacon, cook the rice and garlic powder along with salt and pepper to taste.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Next, stir, consistently until evenly combined.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cover the mixture and simmer for at least 10 minutes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you like a meteor mixture, just add more crab or less eggs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that is it, Madras.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now go, make this recipe yours and until I have another one of recipes for you, remember the stories of the Pratise and be careful and to the next Madras.

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[SPEAKER_01]: As always, enjoy!

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[SPEAKER_01]: and that brings an end to another voyage.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Made these tales inspire, connect, and nourish your soul, just as Chess dish fills your belly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Until next time, keep exploring, learning, and sharing the ancestor stories, fair winds, and following seas.