Scottish/Celtic customs for dedicating a new home?

[beloitpiper]

What are you naming the place? Our ancestral cottage in Ireland was named "áit Cluthar", or "The Cozy Place".

[Bob C]

What are you naming the place? Our ancestral cottage in Ireland was named "áit Cluthar", or "The Cozy Place".

Don't plan to name it. It's just our house. A piper is a given.

Thanks for the input, everybody, owl guts and all.

[macwilkin]

Don't plan to name it. It's just our house. A piper is a given.

Thanks for the input, everybody, owl guts and all.

Bob,

Would you like me to overnight some "genuine Ozarks owl guts" to you? :mrgreen:

Todd

[oldsoldier]

An old tradition, I remember, when reading about Ireland, was to place a glass jar of sand by the front doorstep. Now, I know you're not religious (I am not particularly religious myself), but, this was to keep an evil spirit busy counting the grains of sand until morning, when he was banished by the sunlight. I always thought it was an interesting story, and wondered, exactly, how big a jar someone would need

[Bob C]

An old tradition, I remember, when reading about Ireland, was to place a glass jar of sand by the front doorstep. Now, I know you're not religious (I am not particularly religious myself), but, this was to keep an evil spirit busy counting the grains of sand until morning, when he was banished by the sunlight. I always thought it was an interesting story, and wondered, exactly, how big a jar someone would need

I like that one. What a great conversation starter! "Umm, why is that jar of sand sitting by your door?"

Thanks. I wonder how many of these I can get the wife to accept. Maybe, if I start with the owl guts, she'll take the rest to get rid of that one.

[GlassMan]

Hmm, a black rooster or owl by the door...

I wonder if that's why a house in the next neighborhood over has a fake black raven glued to their mailbox?