Description
Household Lore: Folklore, Traditions and Remedies For Every Room in Your Home by Liza Frank is a hardback book exploring the customs, beliefs, remedies, and ritual traditions connected with domestic spaces. Rather than treating the home as a neutral backdrop, this book looks room by room at the stories, warnings, practical habits, and protective customs that have gathered around ordinary places such as the roof, bedroom, bathroom, stairs, threshold, kitchen, dining room, sitting room, cellar, and garden. It is written by Liza Frank, a folklorist and author who has written on myth and folklore and created The Everyday Lore Project.
This is a useful title for readers interested in folklore, folk practice, home protection, domestic ritual, and the strange history of everyday life. The book includes traditions such as sprinkling salt at the threshold when moving into a new home, allowing a cat to enter first, planting houseleek for protection from lightning, and exploring old beliefs around shells, hearths, chimneys, stairs, and gardens. These are presented as folklore and cultural tradition, making the book well suited to curious readers, practitioners, and gift buyers who enjoy learning how meaning has been placed into the practical routines of home life.
In use, Household Lore can be read straight through or dipped into by room. It works well on a bookshelf, bedside table, reading corner, or beside an altar where home-centred practice is part of regular work. Someone moving house may enjoy the threshold customs and protective lore; a kitchen witch may appreciate the remedies and cupboard-based folk practices; a gardener may be drawn to the language of flowers and outdoor traditions. The book also offers plenty of conversational material for those who enjoy folklore that is useful, peculiar, and rooted in real domestic settings.
As a hardback, it also has strong gift appeal for anyone interested in witchcraft, folklore, folk remedies, homeware, ritual practice, or the cultural history of the home. Its room-by-room structure makes the subject easy to approach, whether the reader is completely new to folklore or already works with house blessing, hearth craft, threshold protection, and seasonal domestic rituals.
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