Note: Burning sulfur and shoe soles and reading the Bible are ways to deter spirits, but Jones thinks it useless to try to drive them away. She'd prefer to stand up to them and talk to them. God, she says, is the ruler of the living and the dead.
About the session: 19 of 21 recording sessions with Bessie Jones.
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