Amy Tabb 🇺🇦 on Nostr: "We left him on the edge of the cypress swamp and returned to the village satisfied ...
"We left him on the edge of the cypress swamp and returned to the village satisfied that the only piece of unadulterated meanness that the Lord had ever made was gone from amoung us forever."
About a mule.
From "A Bone of Contention," Zora Neale Hurston, from collection _Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick_.
This is one of those perfect stories.
Recently, I came to know that Hurston was trained as an anthropologist, w/ a folktale collection & research on voodoo.
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