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Pagan Handfasting

Handfasting is non religion specific, in other words, it is not Pagan or Christian, however it has become a favored Wedding ceremony for Wiccans and Pagan groups. Wiccan or Pagan ceremonies may involve different rituals such as forming a circle with stones, flowers or crystals. A ritual used in some Pagan, Wiccan and also Christian ceremonies, has the couple jumping over a broom. Jumping over the broom represents crossing over a threshold into a new life together.

The threshold was once the piece of wood at the home's doorstep that kept the floor in, or, the thresh.  Thresh was a 'carpeting of hay.'

Gross.