'Jumping the Broom' is a phrase associated with what ceremony?
Correct answer: Wedding
Dads_Pants
I thought it originated in Pagan times in Europe and signified the closure if a handfasting ceremony.
The Yorkshire expression of ‘living over the brush’ has its origins here as a couple who have jumped over the broom to get married are not married in the eyes of the law, hence living over the brush is used to descibe an unmarried couple living in sin.
Player #9656511
My wife and I would have jumped the broom at our wedding but my MIL flew off on it.
Syn
In Louisiana at weddings the couple Always jump a broom, often it’s the broom the parents or grandparents jumped they hand it down from generation to generation.
Pallie Nardali
Never heard the expression but am happy to know the phrase, meaning & especially history.
Player #1443092
I enjoy looking at Roots I am an African-American and jumping the broom during wedding ceremony is a tradition that goes on today
auralissnape82
Jumping the broom stick is also part of a handfasting ceremony which has pagan and Celtic roots it symbolises the start of married life together and is an important part of the ceremony.
DEBRA MINĎFUL2256
never heard of it in CANADA or at least in SQUAMISH BC where I live. Love Quiz land and all I'VE lèarned and thè comments from around the world. THANK EVERYONE!
Player #9255152
Glad this traditon lives on. Because if it became Jump the Vacuum, you'd trip on the cord.
Player #3532789
Pallie Nardali, I was at a Druid Wedding a couple of months ago, and although it wasn't a broom, it was big oak that the bride and groom walked/jumped over to symbolise their married life together! Like "tying the knot". It is done in religious ceremonies when the
Celebrant takes a cloth and wraps the bride and groom's hands together.
Summer maddness1968
jumping the broom is an African tradition which a lot of African-Americans still carry on their tradition
Talaith
It is also something to do with virginity. It crops up in the Welsh Mabinogion.
RED
Player #9656511, now that was funny. hope no tall buildings where in her way....splat.
Wisenheimer
hmmm never heard of it... I saw Roots but must've missed that part.
Vicki
hahaha 😆, these "customs ' are sometimes dubious'.
MrM&M
And on Halloween my beautiful cousins fly theirs all over Oklahoma and scare people half to death then fly away with all the candy! 🤣
meka
It's a really interesting custom that I can see myself rabbit holing!
Smokey 84
Player #9656511, I can't stop laughing 😆 🤣 😂
Gracies Mum
never heard of this before.another American centred question?
Bossman
Good day Everyone,
I am happily surprised to find this 'comment' section here...I must say I am TRULY grateful to have such knowledgeable people in my midst. Thank you all.
Pebbles
GreatGrandYaYa, great statement, my aide is black, and I love her, but she drives me crazy . Her boys say she is racist and she is shocked by their comments, but she always makes comments like my people would do that, or black men don't wear white underwear. I'm constantly telling her that one ,yes, they do, and two, she doesn't know all black men to make that comment.
alli
My Scottish Momma had me and my husband jumped over a broom before we were married, at our engagement party in 1986! fun times
Lauren
I was told this originated with enslaved African Americans who were unable to wed legally and instead jumped over a broom.
TigB
Player #9656511, freaking hilarious!
Sophie
I chased my mother-in-law once with a broom
R.REBECOY
I'm so amaze the wedding ceremony jumping in the broom 🥰
KrystlePaige🫶
Player #9656511, lol 😆 that's funny
willow
Cathy , yes! I'm also from Canada! Chilliwack B.C. I'm living and working in Mexico now. love this game and all the comments
Dr.Strange
cynthia, "In the days when?!?!?. Has those days come to an end?
GraceSpace
Lauren, hope you can get some Letting Go therapy OR have you watched Dr Joe Dispensa on utube? He has wonderful ways to move beyond our past ❤️
cynthia
Player #10273535, That's what I have always heard. In the day when the whites oppressed the black man, it was a way to get married even thou the slave owners didn't think blacks could be married.
Player #37967430
My understanding is that since slave marriages weren't recognized it was used by slaves a symbol. It was believed that you were sweeping bad spirits or vibes from your marital home.
Lauren
I've never heard of this. My mom used the broom to sweep and wacked my dad with it when he got drunk. Alot of fighting in my family as I was growing up. I still tremble when I see couples fighting.
joejoe
Dads_Pants, pagan marriages ( hand fasting & jumping the broom) were considered valid by them. But with a lot of things the pagans did the church decided it wasn't legit.
DONECIA
Dads_Pants, me thoughts also.
Nia
in my country we don't jump over it, the newlyweds have to work together to sweep a broken plate with it , to show they can cooperate as a couple
Gregory
Syn, oh really. im from louisiana aint never heard of that tradition
Uninitialized
never heard the phrase before
Rukhsar
I do like it
AnitaGeddaLife
Dads_Pants, I think you're right
cheesy charlie
Player #7932150, no, the british wrote about it... duh