In today’s episode, LadyG talks about various Southern customs and superstitions related to death and burial, including the custom of stopping the clock at the exact time of a person's death.

Content Advisory: If you are sensitive to topics related to death and dying, please feel free to sit this one out and check out one of my other episodes.

*For Entertainment Purposes Only!

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Thirteen Strange Superstitions About Death

Death and Burial Superstitions

Music: Oleg Fedak (via Pixabay)

This episode was written, produced, voiced, edited and researched by G.F. Jackson. *The story, names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious.  No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products  is intended or should be inferred.

In this episode, Madame Hailley takes you on a tour of a "slave cemetery." She also talks about burial practices for enslaved Africans from 1700-1865.

In addition, LadyG discusses the ongoing practice of burying over "slave cemeteries," as well as, relatively contemporary African American cemeteries.

NOTE: This is a conversation that includes frank references to the brutality that slaves endured, so if you are sensitive to the subject, please forego this episode and listen to one of my other episodes.

Sources:

Anthropologist: Building Over African American Cemeteries Not Just A Southern Problem. Wayne Garcia, WUSF Public Media - December 4, 2019

And Die in Dixie: Funerals, Death, & Heaven in the Slave Community 1700-1865. David R. Roediger. The Massachusetts Review

Outtakes from episode 4, when a shady Southern funeral home proprietor leads you on a tour of a ‘local’ cemetery to decode buried secrets. 

During this tour, the spirits came back to shade the tourists. This episode captures the whole thing!

*Content Advisory: Contains Adult Language

This is the inaugural episode of a series entitled:

The Southern Cemetery Chronicles with LadyG.

Today, I share about my first encounters with the concept of death; specifically what happens after a person dies.

I also talk about my first time seeing a cemetery and I tease a bit of what we'll be talking about in coming episodes.

*Some Adult Language

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A Grave Encounter

Credits:

Music: Oleg Fedak via Pixabay

In the South, they say that children born with the veil, or en caul, can see and communicate with spirit. It is also said that they can foretell death. Some say that they are lucky. What say you? What do you know about "the veiled child?"

*Some Adult Language

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If you're looking for something to whet your appetite for the halloween season, look no further!

In this first episode of season two, I am sharing two pieces that I wrote about the chilling lengths that people will go to for "love."

Both works were originally published on my blog, Seekthebestblog, which is now archived.

The first publication, "The Client," imagines a wise rootworker's strong advice to a lovesick young woman.

The second publication, "She Needed Me," is a poem about how a woman's cold hearted obsession led to a family tragedy. This one is told from a "unique perspective."

Contains Adult Content and Language

This is the least that I will say about what happened when a violent free-for-all broke out at the Riverfront in Montgomery, Alabama.

This story is relevant to the podcast because it occurred in an area that is "sacred" to the descendants of enslaved Africans in the South. In essence, it once functioned as a port where their African ancestors were trafficked and traded.

Since my parents are from that general area of Alabama, it is quite possible that some of my own ancestors were probably brought down the Alabama River to that very spot and sold right up the street.

Hence, my connection and strong interest.