Plat-eye

The plat-eye of Gullah folklore is a shape-shifting spirit with one glowing eye, often a dog or cat, that haunts woods and old rice fields to lead travellers astray.

1938 CE · 33.47, -79.10 · status: legend

The account

South Carolina interviews by the Federal Writers' Project in the late 1930s describe it, and Genevieve Willcox Chandler recorded plat-eye stories in Murrells Inlet. Sulphur and gunpowder were thought to drive it off.

Connections in the atlas

• Boo hag

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Gullah (people and culture)