Jumping the Broom
by Kathy Barney
Title
Jumping the Broom
Artist
Kathy Barney
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art
Description
(Allegedly in some African cultures and in slavery times in the U.S.) brooms were waved over the heads of marrying couples to ward off spirits. The couple would often but not always jump over the broom at the end of the ceremony symbolically "sweeping away an old life into a new one.
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June 2nd, 2016
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