Picturesque English cottages and their doorway gardens (1905)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · Philadelphia : J.C. Winston · leaf 103
-ber that the threshold is a very sacred spot. with the Chinese we keep out witches andsuch beldames by hanging horseshoes, orburying bottles, nails or pins. When a bridecomes to her new home, she must be liftedover the threshold, or ill luck will befall her.In England, too, we have had… … UFFINGTON It is not well to stumble at the threshold,as we have it on the authority of Shakes-peare who knew his folklore: For many men that stumble at the thresholdAre well foretold that danger lurks within. In olden days it was protected. Therewas a sacrifice made when the threshold-stone was…
Architecture, Domestic
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