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Hugging Molly

jan page (View posts)
Posted: 19 Mar 2003 11:06PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am looking for information on something or someone my Grandmother used to talk about when I was a little girl. My Grandmother was born in 1906 and grew up in Mobile, Alabama.She mentioned, more than once a story about a woman who walked the streets at night and killed men. She was called the hugging Molly. My Grandmother said she killed the men by hugging them. This story creeped me out as a child and I never forgot it. Has any one else ever heard of this? I would greatly appreciate any info.

Re: Hugging Molly

Unknown (View posts)
Posted: 16 Jul 2003 1:01AM GMT
Classification: Query
I've heard about her I don't have a lot of info, but look on google it may help. reply

Re: Hugging Molly

Jan Page (View posts)
Posted: 18 Jul 2003 11:43PM GMT
Classification: Query
I finally, after all these years found out what the "Hugging Molly" was. I ordered a book called Gumbo Ya Ya off the internet. it was first published in 1945. It has all kinds of Louisianna folk lore in it.
The Hugging Molly was in there. The HM was actually a mentally disturbed man who would hug women on the street. He dressed up in a white sheet or robe and would very strongly hug women at random. He never hurt anyone, but many black women were afraid of him because the white robe or sheet made them think he was part of the clan.

Re: Hugging Molly

unknown (View posts)
Posted: 30 Sep 2005 7:48PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hugging Molly lived in Abbeville, Ala. In fact, there is a restaurant now named after her. Although her name was used to keep children off the streets at night and to get them to honor their bedtimes.."or else.." another version of the story says that her baby died at childbirth and she never got over it. THe hugging gesture she made when she was seen was not a threat but a mournful searching for her child.

Re: Hugging Molly

Posted: 1 Jun 2009 4:16AM GMT
Classification: Query
When I was thirteen, my family moved from California to Dothan, AL. I heard the legend of Hugging molly when I moved there from a girl that lived in my neighborhood. I was very skeptical, having never heard people believing in such silliness. So, I decided to go in the woods with this silly girl. We were just walking around when this girl who seemed to be made of red light came towards us with her arms outstretched. She was moving very fast. We ran and I never ventured into the woods again. I often wonder if I just had an overactive imagination or something.

Re: Hugging Molly

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 10:26PM GMT
Classification: Query
I know this is a 10 year old thread but I drive through Abbeville, AL everytime I go to visit my parents in Fl (several times a year) and always wondered about "Huggin Molly". I have been told that at night, a ghost woman, dressed all in black roams the streets, she chases people (children in particular), hugs them and screams in their ear. She even adorns the town's Welcome Sign
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