In Beloved, Morrison extracts African folklore from history in order to enrich the authenticity of an account of the lives of ex-slaves during the late 19th century. Her extractions include medicinal, religious, and superstitious components from African life. As doctors were not available to most blacks during this time -- slave or free -- they were forced to depend upon their intuitive natur

Morrison provides the reader with a transition between the two worlds. First, she introduces Beloved the ghost as just that -- a ghost, obviously still part of the spiritual world. She then weaves this spiritual part into the real world by manifesting Beloved into a seemingly live person. However, Morrison reaffirms the old standards by implying that while the two worlds appear to be meshed perfectly on the surface, deep down they are in total chaos. This idea is emphasized when Beloved concentrates on holding herself together. She dreads the day (implied as being inevitable) when "pieces of her would drop maybe one at a time, maybe all at once" (133).

Mysticism and magic saturate Beloved. The roots of these elements come from experiences during slavery, which

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