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June 21, 1972
Evening

12
MINNIE EVANS

morning round 8 o'clock I closed my front door and back door and I went to praying. 

N.H.S. You mean this was

M.E. I prayed. Walking from one door to the other just nothing but praying. Nobody thats when I went out on the front porch and everything was turned to rainbow. I said what is it? Is the sun 'clipse or what? I went out on the back and there was a little oak tree right on my right, to the end of my back porch and the limbs was on the house kinda and I went out in the yard and stood up. What frightened some of the crows, the ravens. One of them said caw, caw, caw. Right in that limb on top of the house. I said oh! my and then there's four or five big pine trees in the yard. I don't want to make a mistake but it look like to me there was 18 or 19 different of those birds and some was on top of my house and they came there to hear me pray. That was the only thing was there, those birds.

N.H.S. Was that before?

M.E. I went out there and stood up and then one by one or two they went to flying away. Going away, caw, caw (laughter). And there nobody else here to hear me pray so God sent some ravens out the woods and my, my, my. I was in a miserable fix. I was terrible. I tried to stop painting and that's because my neighbors were calling me crazy because I was praying.

N.H.S. Aaah

M.E. My church members, think of it. Your church members calling you crazy and they talking to me coming nudging each other and I look at them. 'Miss Minnie how you feel'? I say all right, doing well.

N.H.S. (laughter)

M.E. I say I hope you all doing well. Say yes, we - oh! I'm all right - nudging each other and I'm looking at them and (laughter) my church members now. Just think of it. 

N.H.S. Yes.

M.E. Calling you crazy cause you're praying. So I let 'em go ahead and laugh and let them talk and all like that. Oh! Miss Minnie