While working on Georgian period houses (here in Australia), renovators and restorers have found shoes and boots tucked up into chimneys.
The explanation is that witches could detect shapes of people in houses, particularly children (maybe witches have starship sensors on their brooms!), and would come for them. Footwear is the only item of clothing that retains the shape of a body part when not being worn so placing one above the fireplace would draw the witch to a place where they would be uncomfortable and, perhaps, even trapped, -C. ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
