southernist

[vandaliatraveler]

A heavy mist lifts from the mountains above Canaan Valley earlier this morning. The leaves have started to turn and should be at peak in another three to four weeks

[dollhouse-attic]

Theodore, Alabama

[haintbluemoon]

oooh. chain link runs through it the way barbed wire does a tree up at the hazel green burial ground

[llovinghome]

[llovinghome]

Wild Blackberries

[eccooperstein]

Kale in January. Frozen solid, but still good to eat!

[cotttage]

[llovinghome]

[coastalcottage]

[llovinghome]

[marimopet]

[dtblack82]

Rushtown, Ohio Scioto County

[southernoir]

[mountainmystic13]

Old Appalachian Superstitions part III

• A sick person shouldn’t cut their nails or they won’t get well till they grow out again. (KY, VA)

• It brings bad luck to wear rings on both middle fingers. (KY)

• Three rings of smoke from a chimney foretell secrets kept. (TN, VA)

• If you plant a willow tree yourself, you will die when it’s big enough to shade your grave. Many old folks would hire other people who didn’t know this to plant it for them. (Many regions)

• So a kitten will never runaway and get lost, toss a blanket over it and let it finds its way out. This is supposed to able it to finds its way home should the need arise. (TN)

• Take a rock from a spring you have never been to before and carry it with you always. The first man/woman you cross water with afterwards is said to be your future spouse! (TN)

• Sleep over a piece of someone’s wedding cake to dream of your future spouse. (TN, VA)

• Never measure yourself or a member of the family will die. (KY, TN, NC, VA)

• If you comb your hair at night, you’ll dream of the devil. (KY)

• If two people comb each other’s hair at the same time, the mother of the youngest will die. (KY)

[kentuckwitch]

@jakerichards13 is amazing

[seetsybee]

08/03/18 - 151

the street i live on was named after the husband of the woman who used to live in this house, who looked after me occasionally. the husband was gone when i was a kid. since there are currently vines growing through the windows from the inside, i assume she has gone where her husband has gone.

also, how do they come up with house numbers? i promise you this street does NOT have 151 houses on it.

[americanmythology]

October 1935. Scotts Run, West Virginia. Doped singer: “Love, oh love, oh keerless love.” Relief investigator reported a number of dope cases at Scotts Run. 35mm nitrate negative and caption by Ben Shahn

[lipstickhick]

lordy, how could any place else be home?

[porch-honkey-deactivated2016100]

Snurch.  – PH