Supernatural in BelovedElements of the supernatural pervade Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved. These elements include evidence of African-American folklore and tradition in the daily lives of the residents of 124 Bluestone Road. The character of Beloved is another obvious use of the supernatural: he is a ghost for part of the novel and a "flesh-and-blood ghost" for most of the book. In Beloved, Morrison extracts African folklore from history to enrich it. the authenticity of an account of the lives of former slaves during the late 19th century. His backgrounds include medicinal, religious and superstitious components of African life. Since doctors were not available to most blacks in this period – slave or free – they were forced to depend on their intuitive nature and education. For example, spider web is used as first aid for cuts, while fat is generously spread on the same cuts as a kind of long-term ointment. For slaves, the church was simply another segregated part of life that forced them to develop their own way of life. practicing their faith. The African roots are very visible in Baby Sugg's "sermons" in the Glade. White men go to church, sit on wooden pews, and prepare for a long dissertation on their sins. On the other hand, Baby Suggs calls his people into Nature to dance, cry, and ultimately laugh. His version of a sermon is actually an outpouring of the vast contents of his heart. Superstitions are a natural part of the structure of every culture. However, some superstitions are firmly rooted in a specific culture. This is evident in Baby Sugg's statement to Sethe where she says, "There's not a house in the country that isn't filled to the rafters with some dead nigger's grief" (Morrison 5). Similarly, Ella comments to Stamp Paid, “You know as well as I do that people who die badly don't stay in the ground” (188). Morrison's style embodies a further aspect of African philosophy. According to John S. Mbiti, "[it] emphasizes that the spiritual universe is a unity with the physical, and that these two intermingle and fit into each other so much that it is not easy, or even necessary, sometimes drawing distinctions” (Samuel 138). and the natural world..