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The folkloric belief that a string of garlic stretched across the threshold of a door keeps off evil influences is not entirely without a ground. Garlic is found in Europe and in Asia in the same position and for the same purpose. Outside the house, flowers of sulphur (powder) dusted inside the shoes is also used in occult circles here.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 14 : The Sensitive Mind > # 30