#South Carolina Island

[kemetic-dreams]

A story from a former slave, Mary Middleton, a Gullah woman from the South Carolina Sea Islands, told of an incident of a slaveholder who was physically weakened from conjure. A slaveholder beat one his slaves badly. The slave he beat went to a conjurer and the conjurer made the slaveholder weak by sunset. Middleton said, "As soon as the sun was down, he was down too, he down yet. De witch done dat." Bishop Jamison was born enslaved in Georgia in 1848 and wrote an autobiographical account of his life. On a plantation in Georgia there was an enslaved Hoodoo man named Uncle Charles Hall who prescribed herbs and charms for slaves to protect themselves from European people.

Hall instructed the slaves to anoint roots three times daily and chew and spit roots towards their enslavers for their protection. Another slave story talked about an enslaved woman named Old Julie who was a conjure woman and was known among the slaves on the plantation to conjure death. Old Julie conjured so much death, her slaveholder sold her away to stop her from killing people on the plantation with conjure. Her enslaver put her on a steamboat to take her to her new slaveholder in the Deep South. According to the stories of freedmen after the Civil War, Old Julie used her conjure powers to turn the steamboat around back to where the boat was docked, which forced her slaveholder who tried to sell her away to keep her.

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[whitefireprincess]

Sullivan's Island, SC | Poe's Tavern

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South Carolina Miku by pixelatedsweat on Xitter

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[wandering-jana]

Passionflower.

Pickney Island National Wildlife Refuge, South Carolina

June. 2024

[unteriors]

Pine Log Road, Beech Island, South Carolina.

[forestgreenivy]

Home 💕

[2othcentury]

Bull Island, South Carolina, c. 1977 © Hunter Desportes

[lowcountry-gothic]

Botany Bay, Edisto Island, SC.

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Welcome to the lowcountry - Chandler Hatch

[kemetic-dreams]

Historians from Southern Illinois University in the Africana Studies Department documented about 20 title words from the Kikongo language are in the Gullah language. These title words indicate continued African traditions in Hoodoo and conjure. The title words are spiritual in meaning. In Central Africa, spiritual priests and spiritual healers are called Nganga. 

In the South Carolina Lowcountry among Gullah people a male conjurer is called Nganga. Some Kikongo words have a "N" or "M" in the beginning of the word. However, when Bantu-Kongo people were enslaved in South Carolina the letters N and M were dropped from some of the title names. For example, in Central Africa the word to refer to spiritual mothers is Mama Mbondo. In the South Carolina Lowcountry in African American communities the word for a spiritual mother is Mama Bondo. In addition during slavery, it was documented there was a Kikongo speaking slave community in Charleston, South Carolina

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FREAKING OUT THE MUSIC IS BACK I'M SO HAPPY

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Moonrise over the marsh. Cat Island.

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Kiawah Island

South Carolina, 2017. Diana F+ on Ilford XP2 400 B&W film.

[doueverwonder]

the more wttt I watch the more i like the 13 being siblings;

Virginia has eldest daughter vibes somehow, he contemplates murdering them all so he can be an only child regularly but also if you dare insult any of them he's coming for you only i can do that 🔫 Also the "stay loyal to the crown" is the same as "Try not to disappoint mom and dad"

New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey & Pennsylvania are literally those families that have a lot of sons and have completely indoctrinated them into toxic-masc so they're always fighting each other and are just generally really loud and messy and very rarely held accountable for shit bc "oh it's just boys being boys :)"

Maryland, New Hampshire and Delaware are splitting the overlooked middle child role, they can do just about whatever they want because no on is paying attention and will either end up the most well adjusted out of everyone OR end up in therapy for the longest amount of time. it's a tossup and we won't know until it happens. (right now tho it’s looking like NH will be alright, and Del and Mary are gonna end up in therapy for 7-9 years apiece)

All I have to say about the Carolina's is the annoyance of an older sibling when the younger sibling won't stop copying them. "no mom, it's not a compliment they're just being ANNOYING"

Georgia just is the baby of the family whether he fits it or not (fr like the first 12 were founded between 1607-1682 and then Georgia wasn't founded until 1732) but also he does have the vibes of someone who has never been told no and also bc Penn telling him 'get out of my house' is the exact same vibes as older siblings telling their younger siblings to 'get out of my room'