Question: Should Your Besom Touch the Ground?

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I’m not talking about witches flying on broomsticks here. What I mean is, when you are clearing a space for use in a ritual, should you actually do any clearing with your besom broom or should you just symbolically waft it over the space that you’ve already physically cleared some other way?

Now, when I was young my family used a besom broom to sweep up the leaves in the garden every autumn or to sweep up the grass cuttings after mowing the lawn. It did that job very well indeed – just as well as any modern plastic garden broom.

So, why do I keep reading in books teaching witchcraft that your besom should never actually touch the ground?

What do you think?  Do you keep your besom airborne or are you a more down-to-earth witch?

Links and previous related posts
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2007/11/what-witches-use-their-brooms-for.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/08/three-broomsticks.html

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