The color on porch ceilings even has a name — haint blue.
In recent years, various media outlets have published commentary on a custom in some parts of the U.S. South in which homes have light blue paint on exteriors, particularly porch ceilings, eaves, doors, and shutters. The blue in question is often a soft, robin's egg shade, and is known as"haint blue."
The color on porch ceilings has a name — haint blue. The word"haint" basically means evil spirit or haunt, and the color blue is intended to confuse any such specter.in 2020, the color is intended to ward off ghosts, or"haints": But the Atlas Obscura article quotes Louise Miller Cohen, founder of the Gullah Museum on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, who said she had never heard of any such tradition mentioned in her family.
But it's no surprise that mainstream press was slow to catch on to the concept, said Damon Fordham, a professor at The Citadel who's studied Gullah folklore.
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