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Tagged Blue doors and Windows, Culture, Essaouira, Essaouira Blue Doors, Life, Mogador Blue, Morocco Doors
The custom of painting doors blue extends across Europe and beyond and is common across the entire world.
Even today in provinces of Spain buildings are decorated with blue bands and designs, houses in Egypt, in the Arab villages of Israel, and entire villages in Morocco, have blue walls. The same colour decorates the houses of Mexican Indians and in the United States the Amish in Pennsylvania paint their doors blue because, just as in Greece, many folk magic traditions and customs maintain that a witch cannot cross a blue threshold and according to such belief, a blue door is an effective barrier against evil, much like laying a broom across the thresh hold, putting salt on the windowsills or a hanging a horseshoe above the door.
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Tagged Blue doors and Windows, Culture, Essaouira, Essaouira Blue Doors, Life, Mogador Blue
Spot the Odd One Out…
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Tagged Culture, Essaouira, Essaouira Blue Doors, Life, Mogador Blue
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