Carolina Quotes
A haint is something you’d see if you was walking along the road in the dark that’d make your backbone want to crawl out of your back. Maybe a branch moving, or a head up on a post. In the morning, you’d go back and see owl droppings.
Ray Hicks Carolinian
Source
Interview at his home on Beech Mountain, North Carolina, in Su Clauson-Wicker's profile "Ray Hicks: America's Premiere Storyman," Blue Ridge Country magazine
- form
- interview
- work
- Blue Ridge Country profile
- year
- 1990
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