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| Now is the time to prepare for the coming winter. A house blessing can easily be put together to encourage health, wealth, and comfort through the cold months to come. You'll need:
Grapevines for wreath (if you can find the vine and weave the wreath yourself, so much the better) Dried pumpkin seeds threaded on cotton thread, NOT polyester! Holly berries threaded on cotton thread Dried slices of apple and oranges laced with cotton thread Small balls of suet rolled in birdseed and laced with cotton thread Three ears of Indian corn Tie the three ears of corn together to form a trine. Tie the corns to the wreath. Weave the strings of berries, fruits, and seeded suet around and through the ears of corn. Place the wreath near the door to your home you use most often. This is not just for decoration, but also to help sustain the life around you, as you ask for your own life to be sustained and nurtured through the winter. Sympathetic magic works! Holiday lore: Many villages in the English countryside share the tradition of "lost-in-the-dark bells." Legend tells of a person lost in the dark or fog, heading for disaster, who at the last moment was guided to safety by the sound of church bells. The lucky and grateful survivor always leaves money in his or her will for the preservation of the bells. This day commemorates one particular such case, a man named Pecket in the village of Kidderminster, in Worcestershire, who was saved from plummeting over a ravine by the bells of the local church of St. Mary's. In honor of this event, the bells still ring every October 29. |
