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Holy Ghost People
24 March 2006Ashley Michelle Makar: "When Aunt Judy almost died last week, I was watching people speak in tongues, in Peter Adair's 1967 documentary Holy Ghost People. Aunt Judy was being resuscitated in a north Alabama emergency room, her blood sugar sky high, while I was getting exhilarated, in a New York screening room, high on cinematic testimonies, the quickening power of the Holy Ghost. I was watching at first in awe -- the convulsive jerk of an Appalachian woman's head before she broke into tongues; a younger woman talking about the Lord dealing with her through a tingling in her stomach. As I listened to those Holy Ghost people getting worked up, or the Lord working on them, as they put it, something like revelation came up on me: My people are Holy Ghost people. Their strange Word is my Grandmother tongue. It's in my blood. Like cancer..." More on our sister site, Killing the Buddha.
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