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ting by the fireplace talking. Well, the fire burned low
and needed to be replenished. For convenience, firewood
was stacked outside a sliding board window which was built
right beside the fireplace. Mother's brother, who was
about 15 or 16 years old, opened the window to get some
firewood for the fire. As he tried to draw the wood
through the opening of the window, it seems that something
caught hold of the other end of the log and began to pull,
scratch and claw on the wood. After several attempts to
get the wood inside, my mother's brother gave up and quick-
ly shut the window. The scratching and clawing grew so
fierce that it frightened them almost out of their wits.
The noise outside was so scary that they became too fright-
ened to try to spend the night in the house. So, the three
of them, my mother, her brother, and their mother, slipped
out the back door and headed across the field to the
neighbor's house. The ghost soon discovered they were es-
caping and took up hot pursuit. They could hear him run-
ning and panting, trying to catch them. Fear had put wings
on their feet and they were running for life. Well,
finally, they came to a little old creek and jumped across
to the other side and safety. According to my mother this
is the only thing that saved them from the horrible
clutches of the "hant." When it reached the stream of
water, it stopped. They could hear him shrieking and
panting. "Hants" could not cross a running stream of
water.
The next day, they came back and moved their belong-
ings to another house and was never again bothered by
grandpa's "spirit."
Many blood curdling tales were told about "Hants"
and things with supernatural powers. The old folk had so
many superstitions and weird beliefs about certain things.
Just to listen to them tell about some of those things
were the same as the ghost stories they would tell.
They believed that ghosts or "hants" could not cross
running streams of water thus, if a person being chased
by a ghost would cross a stream of water, they would be
saved.
It was also believed that persons hid great sums of
money in the ground under old stumps and underneath houses
in pots and buckets. After that person's death, their6
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Panola College. Dept. of Communications. Black Gold, Volume 3, Number 2, 1977, periodical, 1977; Carthage, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth151415/m1/8/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Panola College.