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Welcome Home - Rebecca DiLiberto
Welcome Home
Rebecca DiLiberto
MAKE YOUR HOUSE A HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND HAPPY PLACE TO LIVE
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 Finding a New Home
CHAPTER 2 Moving into a New Home
CHAPTER 3 Protecting and Maintaining Your Home
CHAPTER 4 Bringing Love and Family into Your Home
CHAPTER 5 Promoting Health in Your Home
CHAPTER 6 Bringing Friendship and Joy into Your Home
CHAPTER 7 Generating Wealth in Your Home
CHAPTER 8 Attracting Luck to Your Home
Index
Copyright
INTRODUCTION
MOST OF US DO A NUMBER OF THINGS ALMOST instinctively when we start the process of making a new home our own. We copy keys, we buy welcome mats. We paint walls, hang curtains, wash windows.
But there are other, not-so-mundane, rituals that some of us practice for more mystical reasons. Some people won’t sleep a night in a new bedroom without placing an emerald on their bedside table to keep snakes away—even if nary a snake has been seen in the area. Others won’t walk through the front door of their house without first painting its threshold blue, to keep witches from entering their sacred domestic space.
Welcome to a collection of home folklore, myth, mystery, and fun traditions and customs from all over the world. You don’t need to believe in magic to be fascinated by these superstitions. The charms and warnings in this book will pique even a skeptic’s interest—and may even encourage her to hang a horseshoe.
This book will accompany you as you go through the process of finding a new home, moving into it, decorating it, starting a family, throwing parties, and
celebrating holidays and milestones. Within each chapter, rituals are classified by the sort of fortune they aim to bring, from luck to wealth to protection. Select those ideas that speak to you, and make them your own.
While most of the rituals are easy to understand and perform (barring, of course, the occasional arcane historical practice, such as mummifying cats or making owl stew), a few are drawn from customs you may not be familiar with. Here are some definitions that may be helpful before you begin reading:
Feng shui is the Chinese practice of arranging architecture and its contents to best serve the chi, or life force, of its inhabitants.
Vastu Shastra is a similar practice of directional alliance that stems from the Hindu tradition in India.
The real joy in this book is not necessarily found in the magic
each superstitious practice may—or may not—bring. Pleasure will come from developing new traditions for your new home, which your family may pass from one generation to the next.
The best way to use this book is to cherry-pick your favorite rituals from the smorgasbord of superstitions and encourage your loved ones to do the same. Unlike religion, belief in charms and totems really can be a buffet.
CHAPTER 1
Finding a New Home
MANY PEOPLE SPEAK OF HAVING A
sixth sense when it comes to selecting a new place to live. Whether it is feeling pulled by some intangible force upon seeing a For Sale
sign, or finding yourself on the same remote block during your morning walk over and over again, it’s difficult to dispute that some places exert a powerful draw on us.
It’s not surprising, then, that almost every culture has a long list of guidelines and warnings when it comes to choosing the location of a home. Here are some things to consider when you’re pounding the pavement trying to decide where to put down your roots.
CHOOSING A SITE
THE IRISH BELIEVE THAT FAIRIES
are everywhere, and that the fairies use special paths to travel from place to place. Therefore, it’s important not to build a house on top of one of these paths. To make sure your building site is in the clear, stake it out with four posts, then leave them standing overnight. If, come morning, any or all of the posts have been knocked over, you’re trespassing on fairy territory, and proceeding with construction could guarantee you and yours a lifetime of annoyance. If the posts are still in place, you’re free to break ground.
POTENTIAL HEALTH CONCERNS
are not the only reason that you should think twice before purchasing land near a power plant. Feng shui devotees believe that the energy generated by the plant can actually disrupt the flow of energy in the home.
MANY IRISH PEOPLE ALSO BELIEVE
that a family’s new house should not be built directly across the street from the old one, in order to avoid repeating negative patterns and to ensure that the lives of everyone in the family continue moving safely forward. Who wants to look upon their old life when beginning anew?
WHILE MANY YOUNG FAMILIES SEEK OUT HOUSES
located in cul-de-sacs for privacy and a safe place for their children to play, some cultures maintain that such locations can lead to stagnation—a metaphorical dead end—in the dwellers’ lives. If you fall in love with a house on a dead- end street, just