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Recently, in the walls of British homes began to find mysterious hiding places in which there are no jewels or someone’s remains, and old shoes. Why did anyone need brick up shoes and shoes, stays a riddle.
However, local historians have a possible explanation for this. a phenomenon. They believe that in former times the inhabitants of the Misty Albione did this in order to protect their homes from supernatural entities and the dangers of our contact two worlds – the physical and the afterlife.
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A resident of the English city of Norwich, Laura Potts recently started repair in the kitchen of his house, built back in the Georgian era. When the builders dismantled the brick wall, they found inside a small cavity with an old-fashioned worn female shoe. The surprised mistress photographed a mysterious find and wrote about her on Facebook. To the great surprise of Potts, her publication quickly became popular. Many fellow countrymen of the British declared in comments that also found objects in the walls of their houses shoes. Some users even reported that they retrieved them from walls that they laid on their own. That is, these things materialized there on their own. However, it is impossible with accuracy say such people are telling the truth or just joking.
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The historian Malcolm Gaskill, learning about this, suggested that shoe items were walled up in houses around the middle of the 17th centuries to ward off witches, demons, evil spirits, goblins and others the inhabitants of the other world. Then it was believed that the evil sorcerer may even be your best friend, so superstitious british tried by all means to protect their homes from evil. Worn out shoes and shoes, according to what was then believed, could be worn a kind of imprint of the owner or mistress of the house. Putting such a thing into the wall, a man tried to deceive devilry and prevent her from entering the house through the door, window, pipe and so on – that is, completely closed the house from penetration into it by any evil evil spirits.
