that statue ... it was my great grandmothers , she lived to be a hundred and ten , scary old crone ... half nuts ... only time she made sense was when she gave it to me , said she was gon na die ... said it was magical , told me it saved her mother ... she had been sold as a slave , to some guy they called the whipper , his wagon was hijacked on their journey to his place ... by some extremely strange people , they released her told her to run north ... just run honey , do n't worry about nothing else , they told her ... she became free because of them . ''