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Southern Customs - Haint Blue

7/16/2012

 
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Haint Blue on a Georgia Door photo: Georgia Historical Society
Haint Blue is a whole palette of colors which range from a baby blue to a dark aqua green. These colors were introduced to us by the descendants of slaves known as the Gullah or Geechee people and are now seen on tons of historic buildings in the South. The colors are used to confuse ghosts based on the folk legend that ghosts can't cross water. (Remember, the Headless Horseman couldn't cross the bridge in Sleepy Hollow.) 
So, they would make your front door, or porch, or the ceiling in your porch look like water so the ghosts wouldn't bother you. Now you can buy this very spiritual color in any paint store. It just isn't made with the blood and ceremony of the original Haint Blues. 



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