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Skinny, Skinny, Don't You Know Me?
Performed 10/09/17 Clutch New Music, Austin TX

Nicholas McNamara, Tenor Saxophone
Huijaun "Suisie" Ling, Piano
Nathan Nokes, Electronics

Skinny, Skinny, Don’t You Know Me?, is derived from the Boo Hag folklore of the Gullah people. The Gullahs are decedents of slaves in the states of South Carolina and Georgia, who due to periods of isolation were able to maintain a strong African cultural heritage
The Boo Hag is a mythical creature that takes the form of a woman during the day, but at night sheds her skin and flies around with exposed muscles and veins searching for a victim to feed on. When she finds someone she enters their room as they sleep and “rides” the victim by sitting on their chest and sucking away their breath. If the victim wakes up the Boo Hag will kill them and take their skin. The Boo Hag must make it back into her skin before sunrise or she will burn to death when the sunlight touches her.

There are a number of tales that involve of the Boo Hag. Many feature someone finding a Boo Hag’s skin at night and rubbing it with salt and pepper so that the Boo Hag cannot put the skin back on. The Journal of American Folklore has several versions of this. In Volume 35 1922 it contains a version where the woman is a shape shifter, but the rest of the lore is the same.

Once there was a woman that could turn into a witch. When the husband would go to bed, she would slip out....
While she was gone, the husband missed her and got up. He saw her skin lying by the fire. He got some red pepper and put it inside of the skin. Then he locked the door to keep her from coming into the house that night. When she came back, she slipped through the keyhole and went to get into her skin. Every time she went to get in, the pepper would burn her. She would say, "Skinny, skinny, don't you know me?" Then she would try again: it would burn her still. She would say, "Skinny, skinny, don't you know me? " The husband woke up. She got into it, but could not stay. Then she was tarred, and burnt to death.