Greetings Karen, I just finished your book, Just South of Home, and enjoyed it. I have a book in my collection entitled Folk Beliefs Of The Southern Negro by Newbell Niles Puckett, Ph.D. published in 1926. I was wondering if you might have used this as one of the sources of your research for your story? I ask this because of your use of the word haint, and various other themes throughout the novel.