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Goat
Volume 1, entries 228. Source context: SPIRITS → SPIRITS AND ANIMALS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 228
Then, I saw a billy goat one night that was a spirit. We were coming home from over town and when we got up to the graveyard we had to pass. There was a bridge there by the path and this goat he come up from under that bridge. There was twenty-five or more women together coming over. And I said, "Oh! look at that goat." Another old lady along there with us, she said, "That ain't no billy goat, that's a spirit." When we got up to the bridge he went overboard then and the water splashed all up. And when we got up there we didn't see nothing.
The informant identifies the billy goat as a spirit in a recollection; another woman's quoted identification remains separate.