Turntable 05/19/2014

Swamps - they freak me out.  Common to all swamps is "quicksand".  That stuff is really scarey!  You think you are walking across a little bog and then you realize you are sinking ever further with each step . .  panic and fear ensue as you sink helplessly.   Swamps are all over the southern part of the country boardering the Gulf of Mexico and southern florida.   Most of these places are just not suitable for human habitation. And who do you think lives there?  Well some pretty CRAZY/WIERD PEOPLE and WITCHES.  Man! both "Witches and swamps" freak me out!

Wanna know how these crazy people make a living in the swamps of Louisana?   Ever heard of "Amos Moses"?  Amos Moses was a Cajun. spend his entire life in the Louisiana BayouHuntin alligators.  Tough life . .  Amos's parents, Doc Millsap and his wife Anna, used Amos, as a child,  for "bait" to capture alligators.  Y'see alligator skins are really valuable.  People use the skin for shoes, wallets, and wardrobe accessories . . .  they pay a lot of money for that stuff!  Amos never saw any "big money"  so, to make his living,  he must keep hunting alligators.  The demand is endless. . . Jerry Reed tells the story about Amos! 

Think about the snakes and alligators in the everglades.  That mosquitoe infested space amidst the swamps, quicksand and spiders.  I remember someone telling me that the thing that freaked him out most was the Thump, Thump, Thump his car tires made on the "Everglades Road" streaching from Miami to Naples.  Of course, the thumping noise was made byrunning over snakes crossing the road at night.  Wouldn't be fun getting a flat tire there .  . would it!  There is frequent talk about folks who commit serious crimes and escape into the everglades never to be found.  Here is a story about one such person . . . Never being caught means you won! . . . . . Or does it?

Did I tell you I really don't like swamps?  They are scary places.  Freaky stories abound regarding "swamp people" Old wandering ghosts, witches and stange unexplained events that happen there.  It seems swamps are populated by every sort of creepy thing created!  You need only stop at one of the local "watering holes" and  "set a spell".   Before you know it,someone will tell a "swamp" story describing some unimagininable event.  Maybe it's about a witch hidden in the bayou casting spells or folks dissappearing out in the swamps - never to be found again.  This one is about a swamp witch named Black Water Haddie!

I don't like witches! no sir!  Witches are always casting spells, trying to capture you and . . .  what the heck do they do with you?  I don't seem to recall an "after capture" situation.  And what's with the pointed hat? Can they really fly on a broom???  Why did they choose a broom for God's sake.  Could'nt they have chosen something more streamlined?  And why are modern witches always so sexy?  Don't know about you but the witches I  remember had close beady eyes, with a long crooked nose with a big wart on it!  The perfect witch I remember was the "Wicked Witch of the East" in The Wizard of Oz!  One thing they all seem to have in common "They're Wicked"!

Although modern witches can be beautiful and tempting you don't want to personally get close to a witch - "she'll lock you in the night until you skin turns red"  Seems to me that a WITCH RELATIONSHIP has something in comon with QUICKSAND! and SWAMPS!    

                     "you can tiptoe into it but you can't tiptoe out"!

Till next week 

Harv