"hant" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1907, Harold Bell Wright, chapter I, in The Shepherd of the Hills, New York: A.L. Burt, page 20",
          "text": "“[…] Say, Mister, did you ever see a hant?”\nThe gentleman did not understand.\n“A hant, a ghost, some calls ’em,” explained Jed.",
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        {
          "ref": "1934, Cecile Hulse Matschat, chapter 3, in Suwannee River: Strange Green Land, New York: The Literary Guild of America, page 52",
          "text": "[…] he shivered as though a hant had touched him with its ghostly fingers, for night was near and he was alone in a depth of the swamp where he had never been before.",
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          "ref": "1967, Richard M. Dorson, “Spirits and Hants”, in American Negro Folktales, Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett, page 213",
          "text": "The term “hant” covers all malevolent and inexplicable sights and sounds. Primarily hants protect buried treasure and linger about ghoulish death spots.",
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          "ref": "1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 22, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 140",
          "text": "Naturally, I believed in hants and ghosts and “thangs.” Having been raised by a super-religious Southern Negro grandmother, it would have been abnormal had I not been superstitious.",
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          "ref": "1907, Harold Bell Wright, chapter I, in The Shepherd of the Hills, New York: A.L. Burt, page 20",
          "text": "“[…] Say, Mister, did you ever see a hant?”\nThe gentleman did not understand.\n“A hant, a ghost, some calls ’em,” explained Jed.",
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          "ref": "1934, Cecile Hulse Matschat, chapter 3, in Suwannee River: Strange Green Land, New York: The Literary Guild of America, page 52",
          "text": "[…] he shivered as though a hant had touched him with its ghostly fingers, for night was near and he was alone in a depth of the swamp where he had never been before.",
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