I was born in New York City. My parents are from Charleston S.C. I would visit my grandparents every summer. During my visits I would be fascinated by the Gullah language. I would also hear stories of hags and other folklore. At that time I thought the stories were foolish talk and that the people in the south were backwards and being that I was from the big city I was more educated and advanced then them until I was allowed to stay down south with my grandparents when I entered the 5th grade. One night while I was asleep I felt a presence hover over my body. Within a second It felt like a ton of bricks landed on my body. I could not move or talk. The thing was crushing me into the bed with all it's weight. It also made a humming sound (like electricity). Finally after about a minute it released me and I felt like a broken old man. I told my grandmother and all the kids in the neighborhood about it. They said that a hag rode me. Since then all throughout my life I have had paranormal experiences. I see ghosts, I moved stars and I saw a black hole in the sky during the day with stars filled in it with a image of me in it and other experiences too long to mention here. I have learned to respect the stories I would hear from the people in the south and realized and respect that they were much wiser than we are today. Now at the age of 63 years old and a lifetime of soul searching, I believe there are hags and outer entities in this world and outside of it. I don't believe that my experience was a hag but of astral projection (I woke up just as my spirit returning returning to my body). These experiences have made me highly spiritual and I have learned and still learn about myself by going within. I now study ancient African history, metaphysics and the occult. I realize that religion is used as a means to control you spiritual and that black people are Gods who came down to have a human experience. The experiences you encounter in life are for lessons you need to learn and pay attention to. Don't take anything for granted. There are no co-incidents and everything happens for a reason. The people you encounter is life are there to push you forward (whether they are negative or positive).
My family in NC used to say a witch was riding you. As I got older it was called sleep paralysis. However I remember being very much aware and hearing that sound when it happened to me.
It's truly a blessing to hear from black historians about our history and spiritual culture. Enjoyed this. We need to preserve our ancestral culture and heritage.
My friend and I had heard about the boo hag from a Savannah ghost tour. We were riding our bikes on Tybee Island later that night when the moon was bright. We parked our bikes and went out to the beach. When we got back a single cat was sitting under the street light by a beach house. We laughed and shouted to the cat "come on out ya Ole boo hag" I kid you not two more cats walked up on either side of the first one just staring at us. The fear was electric. We unlocked our bikes as quickly as we could and took off. I'll never forget all those eyes looking back at me peering into my soul.
I'm from South Carolina & I remember my great gma Essie T (God bless her precious soul) would sleep with silverware under her pillow & it was how she kept the witch off her at night. I grew up hearing so many wild true stories it's crazy, but if u from here then u know
That is true, same with Celtics tradition of hanging a witches ball on the mantle of a room. Which is a mirror ball or an xmas ornament on a Christmas tree.
@@nikkinicole2912 I'm born in Savannah but raised in Florida. I'm Geechee on my mama side and we was told the same thing you said. If you point at a grave bite your finger.
This is very interesting. I love to hear about our real history as indigenous people and the spiritual practice of ancient Africans that arrived and how it was mixed with the indigenous ones.
As a Kid the Hagg would ride my back often.. It happened a few times after I reached my 20's.. I could recall my saying never point my finger at a graveyard. We lived in Beaufort S.C. for a little while, My little brother Great Great Uncle was/is one of the most famous Root Dr. in the world.. Dr. Buzzard.
I used to hear my grandparents speak about Dr. Buzzard when I was a child, I thought I was a scare tactic until I was in my 40s. My grandfather wasn't as old as him but they lived on the same island.
I am from Charleston South Carolina and i would be lying in bed and all of sudden i would feel something get on top of me, i would be screaming with all my might, and eyes wide open, i would be looking at my sister across the room. She wouldnt budge. I would ask if she didnt hear me screaming once it was over, and she would say no. This would happen at least once a week. After this i did change, i started peeing the bed, i was depressed, out of five kids, i was THAT child, the loner that the family felt they had to treat delicately. This is when i was 6. i am 32 now, and like after 9, it went away. Well, at least i think it did. My mother said it was a hag when I was younger
@Benjamin Leverett our Gullah Geechee background calls for us to have somewhere for the wayward spirits of our Ancestors that was lost at sea to have somewhere to go...so we hung blue Indigo bottles in the trees to give them somewhere to rest....
Its a mixture of both various indigenous tribes of america and africa that came to be 1 through ethnogenesis creating gullah geechee..aka Afro seminole creole, or sea island creole, it's a mixture.
😭 it took me this long to figure this out. My father is the first of his family from south Santee. Never met my grandmother. Still not sure who my grandad is if he’s still alive. But I went to stay with my auntie before she passed and I remembered laying next to my sister and I was attacked. It’s was like something grabbed me by my throat and levitated me and all I could do was look at my sister. She didn’t remember a thing. But I’ve felt different ever since that day
My grandfather used to tell me to watch out for the hoodoos and haints when i was little. My grandmother is from Appalachia and knows what we call "granny magic" ive seen that women lift a card table leg to do divination with her fingertips on top of the table!
My grandmother was from NC she always told me ghost stories from back home. And she believed in so many superstitions when other people thought she was crazy and said she summoned spirits
The maroons fought 2 the death! They used voodoo & the environment they was in 2 prevail! Love my ancestors! & I love voodoo! They were in the swamps with gators! 🐊 My people are so awesome! ✊🏿⚡🔨 SHANGO! ⚔️
Love the energy fam! But I wanted to share my thoughts being Gullah Geechee ancestors really didn’t have voodoo, or Orisha like shango. We used hoodoo, juju, obayi, and rootwork. We had “hag” control and high John the conqueror, and Queen nanny as our spiritual guides. North American southern blacks really have some the most potent spiritual science around. Voodoo is a religion we didn’t really have connection to. But we certainly had spiritual power using the Four Fist of spirit aka hoodoo/juju/rootwork/obayi
I remember an ole Gullah woman telling me about a Boo hag. Still scares me and the 9 year old white kid who first heard it could not sleep. Bless that woman tho she was a saint
As someone who was born and raised in the low country of Georgia (southeastern Georgia), I had a haint or hag ride me plenty of times.... And when I tell y'all there is nothing you can do about it. Like the lady said your body is paralyzed IT IS TRUE............and the energy is HEAVY!
It's not a superstition... the Gullah people are right, there is sn invisible side to life, and mainstream society thinks it csn just insist it out of existence.
Finally I have the answer my mother was raised by her grandmother and she used to point at graves and she always had to bite her finger she died not knowing the answer I’m glad I found it out
“Follow me for thy soul will reap” that is what I was told in a dream. There were dark figures swirling around and round saying that line over and over. When I came to I couldn’t move my body. I couldn’t move my mouth. I was screaming but nobody could hear me. I couldn’t open my eyes. I was so scared I was crying. When I could finally move I went to my dad for help. He said he didn’t hear me. I’m from Williamsburg Iowa in the US. I don’t know Iowa’s history or why that happed to me. I had many paranormal things happen to me in that town. Someone touched my shoulder but nobody was there. At that time I was invoked with a black guy who is from Congo. I could feel him pulling me from other rooms.
When I was a child in the 1950's, a neighbor called me a haint on many occasions - to the point that my grandmother had a talk with her. She never called me that to my face again. I know that my maternal grandparents came from Georgia/ by way of Virginia. My paternal grandparents came from N. Carolina and S. Carolina by way of Barbados. I have 10% Angolan ancestry with 33% Nigerian. My grandmother's sister used (dust) to try to control people and things but I never found out how or why.
My granny used to ask me before i left if i had money in my pocket .... she'd say lemme give you some money to put in your pocket to keep the haints off ya. She'd say haint aint saints. Saint n haints.
This sounds more like demon possession. When the Almighty wants to use me, he does not weigh down my bed and cause paralysis. When the most high is in my life, my eyes don't roll back- this sounds more like spirits who want to use the living. Why haven't they transcended?
Their language and culture says otherwise...your delusions have nothing to do with reality. Your false beliefs are rooted in ignorance and self hatred.
Gullah people were not just from Sierra Leone! There were people from many other west African countries that made up the Gullah nation! Please do your research! ~ Gullah Geechee descendant
Isaiah55:6&7,"Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts.Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon." Repent, receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior today.This is God's invitation for redemption, Jesus loves you so much and he is the only WAY to eternity.God bless you
You cannot put 400 ppl on the bottom of a slave ship, where is the food to feed 400 ppl plus the SLAVE SHIP CREW, where is the FRESH WATER STORED? IT DID NOT HAPPEN LIKE THAT, we have ALWAYS BEEN IN AMERICA
Lies, not to mention my great great great grandfather was a runaway slave. And the fact African American culture is so heavy in African elements, there's no way we have ZERO connection to Africans. We even look like West Africans, not native americans. GIVE UP!
I was sitting here like am I the only one who don’t see the propaganda taking place in this video 😂😂😂 consciously or not the Gullah Tribe is ABORIGINAL to America NOT Africa. The TERM African American is just that… a TERM NOT A NATIONALITY NOR RACE… it’s a made up fictitious title to rob the indigenous peoples from their name birth rights generation to generation. The “African American” Are the “Native American” or better yet the Aborigines of the Americas
I remember an ole Gullah woman telling me about a Boo hag. Still scares me and the 9 year old white kid who first heard it could not sleep. Bless that woman tho she was a saint
I was born in New York City. My parents are from Charleston S.C. I would visit my grandparents every summer. During my visits I would be fascinated by the Gullah language. I would also hear stories of hags and other folklore. At that time I thought the stories were foolish talk and that the people in the south were backwards and being that I was from the big city I was more educated and advanced then them until I was allowed to stay down south with my grandparents when I entered the 5th grade. One night while I was asleep I felt a presence hover over my body. Within a second It felt like a ton of bricks landed on my body. I could not move or talk. The thing was crushing me into the bed with all it's weight. It also made a humming sound (like electricity). Finally after about a minute it released me and I felt like a broken old man. I told my grandmother and all the kids in the neighborhood about it. They said that a hag rode me. Since then all throughout my life I have had paranormal experiences. I see ghosts, I moved stars and I saw a black hole in the sky during the day with stars filled in it with a image of me in it and other experiences too long to mention here. I have learned to respect the stories I would hear from the people in the south and realized and respect that they were much wiser than we are today. Now at the age of 63 years old and a lifetime of soul searching, I believe there are hags and outer entities in this world and outside of it. I don't believe that my experience was a hag but of astral projection (I woke up just as my spirit returning returning to my body). These experiences have made me highly spiritual and I have learned and still learn about myself by going within. I now study ancient African history, metaphysics and the occult. I realize that religion is used as a means to control you spiritual and that black people are Gods who came down to have a human experience. The experiences you encounter in life are for lessons you need to learn and pay attention to. Don't take anything for granted. There are no co-incidents and everything happens for a reason. The people you encounter is life are there to push you forward (whether they are negative or positive).
My family in NC used to say a witch was riding you. As I got older it was called sleep paralysis. However I remember being very much aware and hearing that sound when it happened to me.
Gullah Jack is the "Hanged Man" in the " Hoodoo Tarot Deck "
It's truly a blessing to hear from black historians about our history and spiritual culture. Enjoyed this. We need to preserve our ancestral culture and heritage.
My friend and I had heard about the boo hag from a Savannah ghost tour. We were riding our bikes on Tybee Island later that night when the moon was bright. We parked our bikes and went out to the beach. When we got back a single cat was sitting under the street light by a beach house. We laughed and shouted to the cat "come on out ya Ole boo hag" I kid you not two more cats walked up on either side of the first one just staring at us. The fear was electric. We unlocked our bikes as quickly as we could and took off. I'll never forget all those eyes looking back at me peering into my soul.
Cinematic! The scene truly belongs on film.
Sounds just like something “us” as bad little curious kids would say, I would’ve been thrilled😂😂
These are the facts. Every black person from South Carolina needs to embrace their Gullah history.
1:50 who is this historian
@@esufulawa facts! They need to do research on Atlantic Beach.
Mississippi too,my people was sold to GA then sold to Mississippi@@esufulawa
I'm from South Carolina & I remember my great gma Essie T (God bless her precious soul) would sleep with silverware under her pillow & it was how she kept the witch off her at night. I grew up hearing so many wild true stories it's crazy, but if u from here then u know
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That is true, same with Celtics tradition of hanging a witches ball on the mantle of a room. Which is a mirror ball or an xmas ornament on a Christmas tree.
My grandma use to tell us if you point at a grave, stick your finger in the dirt...I'm from macon, ga. and can totally relate!
I was told that too, to never point at a graveyard or you'll lose ur finger..... I'm from Augusta Georgia, and I still don't do it till this day...
@@benjaminleverett8670 same here...
Hazlehurst Georgia and it’s the same thing here too. You better not point at nothing
We were told to bite our finger
@@nikkinicole2912 I'm born in Savannah but raised in Florida. I'm Geechee on my mama side and we was told the same thing you said. If you point at a grave bite your finger.
This is very interesting. I love to hear about our real history as indigenous people and the spiritual practice of ancient Africans that arrived and how it was mixed with the indigenous ones.
The women in white dress she’s 💯 Right the Gullah people came from Angola where the word Gullah originated from.
We always been IN AMERICA
No we haven’t. Even Native Americans haven’t always been in America.
@@Gullahbae-xm6ms we was here before them
@@youuknow4670 lol no we weren't. You need to study anthropology instead of watching Dane Calloway videos on RUclips.
@@littlegothgirl8869 I'm not African like you tho
As a Kid the Hagg would ride my back often.. It happened a few times after I reached my 20's.. I could recall my saying never point my finger at a graveyard. We lived in Beaufort S.C. for a little while, My little brother Great Great Uncle was/is one of the most famous Root Dr. in the world.. Dr. Buzzard.
I used to hear my grandparents speak about Dr. Buzzard when I was a child, I thought I was a scare tactic until I was in my 40s. My grandfather wasn't as old as him but they lived on the same island.
My grandfather use to mention seeing “hanks” in the trees in the woods
In Colquitt, Ga
Thank you for sharing this heritage!
I am from Charleston South Carolina and i would be lying in bed and all of sudden i would feel something get on top of me, i would be screaming with all my might, and eyes wide open, i would be looking at my sister across the room. She wouldnt budge. I would ask if she didnt hear me screaming once it was over, and she would say no. This would happen at least once a week. After this i did change, i started peeing the bed, i was depressed, out of five kids, i was THAT child, the loner that the family felt they had to treat delicately. This is when i was 6. i am 32 now, and like after 9, it went away. Well, at least i think it did. My mother said it was a hag when I was younger
I used to have the same thing happen to me but I’m from Williamsburg Iowa.
You just told my story down to me asking my sister about it
The very reason I have blue bottles in my tree
What's blue bottles...
@Benjamin Leverett our Gullah Geechee background calls for us to have somewhere for the wayward spirits of our Ancestors that was lost at sea to have somewhere to go...so we hung blue Indigo bottles in the trees to give them somewhere to rest....
@Carlos mugga yup... we even grew Indigo to die the glass to make the bottles....
Its a mixture of both various indigenous tribes of america and africa that came to be 1 through ethnogenesis creating gullah geechee..aka Afro seminole creole, or sea island creole, it's a mixture.
My Creole people have nothing to do with Gullah Geechee culture. I’m both and if I was to call my Creole folks Geechee I would get slapped probably.
@@BanjiLola 🤦🏾♀️
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😭 it took me this long to figure this out. My father is the first of his family from south Santee. Never met my grandmother. Still not sure who my grandad is if he’s still alive. But I went to stay with my auntie before she passed and I remembered laying next to my sister and I was attacked. It’s was like something grabbed me by my throat and levitated me and all I could do was look at my sister. She didn’t remember a thing. But I’ve felt different ever since that day
This was amazing! Thank you!
I saw a haint growing up in country in Virginia
My grandfather used to tell me to watch out for the hoodoos and haints when i was little. My grandmother is from Appalachia and knows what we call "granny magic" ive seen that women lift a card table leg to do divination with her fingertips on top of the table!
My grandmother was from NC she always told me ghost stories from back home. And she believed in so many superstitions when other people thought she was crazy and said she summoned spirits
The maroons fought 2 the death! They used voodoo & the environment they was in 2 prevail! Love my ancestors! & I love voodoo! They were in the swamps with gators! 🐊 My people are so awesome! ✊🏿⚡🔨 SHANGO! ⚔️
Love the energy fam! But I wanted to share my thoughts being Gullah Geechee ancestors really didn’t have voodoo, or Orisha like shango. We used hoodoo, juju, obayi, and rootwork. We had “hag” control and high John the conqueror, and Queen nanny as our spiritual guides. North American southern blacks really have some the most potent spiritual science around. Voodoo is a religion we didn’t really have connection to. But we certainly had spiritual power using the Four Fist of spirit aka hoodoo/juju/rootwork/obayi
My grandmother used to tell me these stories. We’re Gullah
I remember an ole Gullah woman telling me about a Boo hag. Still scares me and the 9 year old white kid who first heard it could not sleep. Bless that woman tho she was a saint
As someone who was born and raised in the low country of Georgia (southeastern Georgia), I had a haint or hag ride me plenty of times.... And when I tell y'all there is nothing you can do about it. Like the lady said your body is paralyzed IT IS TRUE............and the energy is HEAVY!
My people! 🖤💙💚💛
It's not a superstition... the Gullah people are right, there is sn invisible side to life, and mainstream society thinks it csn just insist it out of existence.
Finally I have the answer my mother was raised by her grandmother and she used to point at graves and she always had to bite her finger she died not knowing the answer I’m glad I found it out
I can see that there are probably lots of restless spirits there. That’s what makes us anyway our spirits and what’s in the inside.
I love my people !! We sum strong folks !!
“Follow me for thy soul will reap” that is what I was told in a dream. There were dark figures swirling around and round saying that line over and over. When I came to I couldn’t move my body. I couldn’t move my mouth. I was screaming but nobody could hear me. I couldn’t open my eyes. I was so scared I was crying. When I could finally move I went to my dad for help. He said he didn’t hear me. I’m from Williamsburg Iowa in the US. I don’t know Iowa’s history or why that happed to me. I had many paranormal things happen to me in that town. Someone touched my shoulder but nobody was there. At that time I was invoked with a black guy who is from Congo. I could feel him pulling me from other rooms.
sleep paralysis is real & you can leave your body this way. you might call it haint or hag……
When I was a child in the 1950's, a neighbor called me a haint on many occasions - to the point that my grandmother had a talk with her. She never called me that to my face again. I know that my maternal grandparents came from Georgia/ by way of Virginia.
My paternal grandparents came from N. Carolina and S. Carolina by way of Barbados. I have 10% Angolan ancestry with 33% Nigerian. My grandmother's sister used (dust) to try to control people and things but I never found out how or why.
Man they always the witch gone ride
Baby my grandma always called people haints especially when they was up to no good
Good to know
True story
2:55 his informants
my life in the bush of ghosts
I'm from the Bahamas and my papa dem tell us if yinna pernt at da grave ya finga gin rotten off
@@esufulawa nice 😊
Now how do a South Carolinian and a Bahamian have the same story? When they are the same people
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Same story as LIlith who was said to be Adams wife before Eve
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My granny used to ask me before i left if i had money in my pocket .... she'd say lemme give you some money to put in your pocket to keep the haints off ya. She'd say haint aint saints. Saint n haints.
This sounds more like demon possession. When the Almighty wants to use me, he does not weigh down my bed and cause paralysis. When the most high is in my life, my eyes don't roll back- this sounds more like spirits who want to use the living. Why haven't they transcended?
Savannah Georgia Had The Most Slaves
Leviticus 19:31 Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
Trust Jesus
I love Jesus. He said we will be more powerful the he. If we believe.
Some of us did, but our roots are AMERICAN, not AFRICAN
Speak for YOURSELF mf. MY lineage is from west & central Africa 😎💅🏾👑
Facts
@@esufulawa yep I got that Bakongo ancestry too 🤘🏾🤘🏾
Their language and culture says otherwise...your delusions have nothing to do with reality. Your false beliefs are rooted in ignorance and self hatred.
⚠️ Gullah and Geechee are 2 DIFFERENT PEOPLE, 🛑 mixing us together, Gullah is Africans from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱, Geechee is 🇺🇸 ONLY!
False
Gullah people were not just from Sierra Leone! There were people from many other west African countries that made up the Gullah nation! Please do your research! ~ Gullah Geechee descendant
Isaiah55:6&7,"Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts.Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon."
Repent, receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior today.This is God's invitation for redemption, Jesus loves you so much and he is the only WAY to eternity.God bless you
You cannot put 400 ppl on the bottom of a slave ship, where is the food to feed 400 ppl plus the SLAVE SHIP CREW, where is the FRESH WATER STORED? IT DID NOT HAPPEN LIKE THAT, we have ALWAYS BEEN IN AMERICA
Exactly. We are the copper colored natives to this land.
Lies, not to mention my great great great grandfather was a runaway slave. And the fact African American culture is so heavy in African elements, there's no way we have ZERO connection to Africans. We even look like West Africans, not native americans. GIVE UP!
@@Marques.Marcus85 😂 Yeah African Americans are all so copper colored 😁
So my great great great grandfather was lying about being kidnapped. Yeah ok😂😂😂😂
@@2eachMyOwn no, YOU ARE LYING MFKA
Gullah people came from America
I was sitting here like am I the only one who don’t see the propaganda taking place in this video 😂😂😂 consciously or not the Gullah Tribe is ABORIGINAL to America NOT Africa. The TERM African American is just that… a TERM NOT A NATIONALITY NOR RACE… it’s a made up fictitious title to rob the indigenous peoples from their name birth rights generation to generation. The “African American” Are the “Native American” or better yet the Aborigines of the Americas
No we didn’t .
Non Christian
This is Hoodoo ❤🥹 I love my people 😊
I remember an ole Gullah woman telling me about a Boo hag. Still scares me and the 9 year old white kid who first heard it could not sleep. Bless that woman tho she was a saint
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