Here’s a little more video of the house we all love. That blue on the porch ceiling is called haint blue. It comes in several different shades and It’s also been used around the exterior of windows and door frames on some southern homes. The tradition of using haint blue paint originated with the Gullah in Georgia and South Carolina. The word haint is an alternate word for haunt which was traditionally used by African Americans to refer to a ghost, or in the hoodoo belief, a witch like creature
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