#haint blue

[hillbillybubbeleh]

Wards on wards on wards on wards.

[dbshawnblog]

Haint blue

[cosmiccoquette]

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HAINT BLUE ON THE WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, DOORS OF SOUTHERN HOUSES

[justasimbeforeigo]

Post-Apocalyptic Twinbrook W.I.P. 5

Two-Story Swamp Shack

This house isn't very large. It essentially consists of two rooms, one per story, though the bottom floor has dividers to break it into two separate areas. The first floor is 7x13 and the second floor is 6x13. It does not have an indoor bathroom, but rather an all-in-one on the back deck. It also has a separate outdoor shower (not pictured).

It is shown here with and without landscaping so the build can be seen.

Surprisingly, fourteen sims live here. The couple has 11 (eleven!) kids and one grandchild (teen mother). It's cramped, but works. Two more cribs were added after these pictures. Parents have a partitioned-off bedroom on the bottom floor, while the entire second floor is the kids' room.

Click to see interior shots.

[feldonscane]

South of Midnight is a game worth hollerin’ about

A game worth praise dancing for.

"The game is an action platformer. Hazel progresses by using her Weaver abilities to heal the blighted landscape and defeat enemies called haints – a Southern term used to describe ghosts or monsters. She’s aided on her quest by Crouton, her childhood stuffed toy come to life by powerful magic. He can take over enemies’ bodies, cause them to fight on Hazel’s side, and can squeeze into places she’s too big to reach."

"And it’s not just the narrative that pays homage to Black and Southern tradition and culture; the gameplay does, too. Instead of the much (and unfairly) maligned yellow paint used to denote a climbable surface, South of Midnight uses a very specific shade of blue — the color Black people in the South would use to paint their porches to keep evil spirits away."

[empresspersephone]

old timey gas station painted haint blue

[farewell-to-lorien]

Haint blue in Leesburg, Florida.

[gullahconjure]

A Boo Hag is a creature of the night, a skinless monster with red muscles, prominent blue veins, and eyes that reflect light like a cat’s. Sometimes it’s depicted with flowing white hair, like the hair that “grows” on corpses that led many older generations to believe the vampires were coming from the dead to feed. (Hair and fingernails seem to “grow” on corpses because, as the skin dehydrates, the nails and hair look longer).

The Boo Hag looks human during the day because it cloaks itself with its previously unlucky victim’s skin. At night, it escapes the skin and goes looking for its next victim. It can slip inside through any crack in a window or a crevice in a wall. Once inside, it finds you sleeping in your bed and crawls on top of you. It sucks the air from your lungs as you sleep, “riding” you until sun-up when it escapes to its hidden skin suit.

Painting the Haint Blue on windowsills, shutters, doorways, and even the verandas’ ceilings kept the spirits and Boo Hags away. The color would cause confusion, as a ghost would think they had stumbled into a body of water (which they cannot cross) or stepped out into the open sky and would be swept away by the wind or killed by the sun. It was a cheap and relatively easy way to keep away spirits out for blood, bodies, and death.

Haint Blue is a color found at your local hardware store, and it’s common to see it painted onto the ceilings of covered porches of new construction with no one knowing the story behind the hue. It’s believed to bring calm and make spaces feel more extensive than they are. That’s why you sometimes see old houses with bright blue shutters, roofs, and fences; it’s keeping out the evil spirits while allowing the good ones to stay and guide the younger generations.