In the 21st century, protecting our homes means, more often than not, installing a top notch alarm system, one of those we regularly set off by mistake in the morning when, before our first coffee, we open the kitchen door to let the cat out. Our fear for intruders, unfortunately well justified, is quite specific: it’s people we’re afraid of and it’s against them that modern technology offers a plethora of protective solutions.
In the centuries past, people had quite a different vision of the dangers their abodes could be subjected to: it wasn’t only a matter of burglars entering the house and stealing property, it was a matter of negativity, karma, bad energies. It was a matter of spiritual evil.
