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When novelist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston first lived in Jacksonville, she said it “made me know that I was a little colored girl.” In their 1936 booklet, Negro Folk Customs and Folk Lore, Hurston and Pearl Randolph told the stories of Mollie Peartree and Wilhelmina Kaiser, two robed Black women in Jax considered “prophetesses,” whom people saw as healers. Here are their stories:
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