House healing

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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]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c House Blessing. American Communications Foundation (August 1, 2003). Retrieved on 2007-01-11.
  2. ^ House Clearing for Ghosts and Spirits. Care2. Retrieved on 2006-09-23.
  3. ^ Blessing of a New Home. Liturgical Year. Catholic Culture. Retrieved on 2007-01-11.
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