House healing
House healings (also known as house blessings and house clearings) are rituals intended to clear a physical place of negative energies or "evil spirits".[1] According to believers of parapsychology, a house healing entails a clairvoyant identifying energy patterns in a house or other physical structure and neutralizing them, allowing the energy of the house to align with present time vibrations.[citation needed] Some believers say house healings ease transitions into a new home and can cleanse a haunted house of ghost activity.[2]
House healings are not only parapsychology related; they take place in Christian, American Indian, and Pagan religions. Wiccans use a many stepped ceremony calling for herbs and the elements in order to banish unwanted spirits. House blessings are as old as Christianity,[1] and in Catholicism, the ritual takes the form of a prayer;[3] the practice also has a history in Eastern Orthodox and Episcopal churches.[1]
Several common superstitions in regards to house-cleaning include using a new broom for the first floor sweeping and bringing water from one's old house.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "House Blessing". American Communications Foundation. August 1 2003. Retrieved 2007-01-11. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ "House Clearing for Ghosts and Spirits". Care2. Retrieved 2006-09-23.
- ↑ "Blessing of a New Home". Liturgical Year. Catholic Culture. Retrieved 2007-01-11.