31 Days of Halloween - Day 4

Along with drawing double crosses, as in this vintage postcard, people in earlier times employed different ways of keeping away evil …

“These included the placing of food on the doorstep to appease any witch

who might approach the house; the putting of salt in the key-holes;

the safe locking up of all the domestic and farmyard animals;

the killing of a cockerel and hanging of its tail feathers on stable doors…”