Household Lore
Folklore, Traditions and Remedies For Every Room in Your Home
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Pub Date Nov 11 2025 | Archive Date Nov 4 2025
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Description
Uncover the folklore and rituals hiding in your own home.
Did you know that planting holly may deter lightning strikes, evil spirits might be spooked by a hot cross bun, and gifting soap can end a friendship? Open this book for a tour around the traditions that lurk under the stairs, inside the cracks and behind every cobweb in our homes.
In every culture, folklore is passed down the generations, helping us protect our sacred spaces, and offering advice should we knock a fork off the table or yearn to dabble in some doorway divination. With each chapter dedicated to a different room, learn how to navigate your home with harmony:
- Discover how your roof can predict the future and what to do should a witch land on it.
- Tiptoe into the bedroom and uncover what the ancients had to say about aphrodisiacs and how to escape supernatural interference while asleep.
- Sit down in the dining room and lift the lid on unsavoury indigestion remedies and old-wife-approved hangover cures.
From the rafters to the cellar steps, from the garden path to the kitchen cupboard – your home is chock-full of folklore waiting to be revealed.
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781786789778 |
| PRICE | $28.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 256 |
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Featured Reviews
Reviewer 1319230
This book was SO interesting! Obviously most of the things in it can’t be used in real life these days but it was very interesting to read all of the history behind keeping our homes safe and curse free! I really enjoyed it! The cover is gorgeous, and the inside is as well. This would much a lovely coffee table book and conversation piece.
Taryn M, Reviewer
Household Lore by Liza Frank
I adore this book! It is wonderful to learn where the traditions that have been passed down came from and why, in some cases, we still do the things we do. This book is easy to navigate by being broken down room by room and filled with rituals and remedies for all sorts of afflictions…… but maybe it’s best to leave some of them between the pages. It really is a fun and informative read. Definitely added to my Christmas list for a few superstitious family members!
Thank you so much to NetGalley, Watkins Publishing and Liza Frank for the joy of reading this one.
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