House healing

House healings (also known as house blessings and house clearings) are rituals intended to clear a physical place of negative energies or "evil spirits". According to believers of parapsychology, a house healing entails a clairvoyant identifying energy patterns in a house or other physical structure and neutralizing them, allowing the energy of the house to align with present time vibrations. Some believers say house healings ease transitions into a new home and can cleanse a haunted house of ghost activity.

House healings are not only parapsychology related; they take place in Christian, American Indian, and Pagan religions. Wiccans use a many stepped ceremony calling for herbs and the elements in order to banish unwanted spirits. House blessings are as old as Christianity, and in Catholicism, the ritual takes the form of a prayer; the practice also has a history in Eastern Orthodox and Episcopal churches.

Several common superstitions in regards to house-cleaning include using a new broom for the first floor sweeping and bringing water from one's old house.