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Haint Blue is a color. You can walk into any hardware store and pick up a can of the pale blue-green paint, which is used on the ceilings of porches to achieve that classic southern charm. What the hardware store may not tell you is that the color got its name from the Gullah people of the southeastern United States, who used it as part of their hoodoo tradition to ward off haints, boo hags, and other ghosts of the Lowcountry. While haint blue as a hue is very much still in fashion, it has lost most of its superstitious significance. We paint our porch ceilings blue, but we don't remember why. What else don't we remember or are we in the process of forgetting?