, i am from the deep south, and i was born in savannah, georgia, and spent all of my summers in statesboro which is about 60 miles outside of savannah. and as you know, savannah is "midnight in the garden of good and evil," and my parents, my family, they were scottish presbyterians. and my aunt ruth played the organ in the presbyterian church on sundays. but everyone in the family, there were eight or nine kids in the family, there was also another religion or faith or set of beliefs, whatever you want to call them, which were the occult. and so my aunt and all of the family believed in the scottish stones and time travel and psychic phenomena and ghosts and astrology and tear row cards and voodoo -- tarot cards and voodoo. so i had these two separate religions. i mean, i had my little christian religion, and i believed in god and jesus, and i prayed every night. but i also had this other belief, set of beliefs which i later came to learn even when i was finally finishing the book that were just as legitimate as any other religion. because i think all religion is magic in the end. and so

. >> i you from the deep south vice spend all of my summers in statesboro and then savannah was scottish presbyterian. but everyone in the family with the religion or fade which was the occult. and with time travel and a psychic phenomenon so with to use separate religions i believe in god and jesus and i pray every night but also unique set of beliefs that they later came to learn it was just as legitimate as many other religions so i watched them when somebody in the family dies and then with that plantation and then everybody will lead hour and then there were scratches on the floor. my aunt had a heart condition and had a dream one night about our mother. and said dowry ruby find she said i will leave something as evidence and got up into the parlor there was to brothers shawl that she was buried in. >> my grandmother her sister my sister pearl . all of our lives. in there has ben the terrible plane crashed in the called the authorities because they were living in fort lauderdale. my aunt's to rebel moro was a they could find them and rescue them. so the is a the stories i had grown