House Blessing and Cleansing
House Blessing and Cleansing is a folk ritual of protection, from the Folk Western tradition. It has 5 steps and opens with: Open the windows and sweep from the back of the house to the front door.
House cleansing is a family of practices rather than one rite; the corpus records the common European-American form and notes the variation.
Practice
- Purpose
- Protection
- Difficulty
- Beginner
Nature and meaning
- Category
- Folk
Details
- Timing
- on moving in, after illness, or once a year
- Steps
- Open the windows and sweep from the back of the house to the front door.Smoke the rooms with incense or a smudge, moving clockwise.Sprinkle salt water at the thresholds.Place a protective object at the front door.Close by naming the house as a place of peace.
- Keywords
- HouseCleansingProtectionThreshold
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- Home Blessing Rituals
- Purification Rituals
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