Marty Perdue asked:

>And, why wards under corners?  Is there any correspondence between corner
>wards and
>African American occupation, where (a big 'perhaps') there may have been
>an older
>tradition of living in houses with no corners?

Corners have a special place in witch lore. In Petersburg, Virginia, is a
house called the Trapezium House, because (surprise!) it is trapezium
shaped. Legend states that it is so oddly shaped because evil spirits need
right-angled corners, and the builder was superstitious. Of course, the
fact that it is built on a trapezium-shaped lot may have had something to
do with it, but that would be no fun.

We still have not found a parallel for the discovery of what appears to be
a blue bead at each corner of the house at Bloomsbury site in Delaware.
There may be a connection with the discovery Eric Deetz reported of a
bottle full of pebbles.

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