Ryder":2m19aw0r said:
greybeard having spent time in the swamp country you should know that hex business is not to be taken lightly. :shock:
Who said I was taking it lightly? That's one of the reasons I packed up and headed accross the Sabine--ain't been back either.
Reminds me of the time me and 5 sailors had to do honor guard at a funeral up in Ville Platte--a catholic funeral and only one of us had ever been in a catholic church in our lives. A sailor had fallen overboard off a Navy ship into the bay in Rota Spain--stayed in the water for 2 days before they found him, was swoll up like a whale and I bet that coffin weighed 900 lbs. We walked in, sat in a pew, the rest of the congregation came in, but about a dozen stayed outside, chantin, hollerin, and all kinds of racket in a language I didn't recognize. The catholic guy among us just said "Do what I do". About that time, the Jesuit priest came walkin down the aisle, swinging a smoking ball on a chain, chanting in Latin, making all kinds of sign with his other hand, and we were up--then down, then kneeling, and I never understood a word that was said. The whole time, that little cadre of folks outside just kept up their own racket, getting louder and louder. Come time for us to carry the coffin out to the hearse, Catholic guy said, "When we get to the door and outside, don't look at nobody or nothin' --just look down". He didn't have to say it twice.
We put big dead guy in the hearse, followed 'em to a little Jesuit monastary type place right out of Sunset down by Lafayette, which is where the cemetery was--on the grounds of the monastery. Same thing there--everybody standing around or sitting, the little group of heathens stayed off to the side with the same chanting and carrying on while we hefted big boy up on top of that crypt he was going to sleep in, folded the flag up above the coffin on our tip toes, and the senior guy handed it to the next of kin--a woman in black veil. She didn't even look up. An old guy with grey dreadlocks a couple seats down pointed at us and said in a deep loud gruff voice " Ya'll can GO now!" Those were the only words spoken in English for the whole service. We got in our van and went straight to a bar to try to figure out "What the heck did we just see?"
Did I mention we were the only white people involved in this except the Jesuit priest?