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In folk magic and mythology, crossroads may represent a location "between the worlds" and, as such, a site where supernatural spirits can be contacted and paranormal events can take place. Symbolically, it can mean a locality where two realms touch and therefore represents liminality, a place literally "neither here nor there", "betwixt and between". ==Ancient religions== An 11th-century homily called ''De Falsis Deis'' tells us that Mercury or Odin were honored on crossroads. #-53.Sum man eac wæs gehaten Mercurius on life, se wæs swyðe facenfull #-54.And, ðeah full snotorwyrde, swicol on dædum and on leasbregdum. Ðone #-55.macedon þa hæðenan be heora getæle eac heom to mæran gode and æt wega #-56.gelætum him lac offrodon oft and gelome þurh deofles lare and to heagum #-57.beorgum him brohton oft mistlice loflac.''〔The Old English text is reproduced here from The Cambridge Old English Reader by Richard Marsden, pp. 205–208.〕 The modern English text gives: "There was also a man called Mercury, he was very crafty and deceitful in deed and trickeries, though his speech was fully plausible. The heathens made him a renowned god for themselves; at crossroads they offered sacrifices to him frequently and they often erringly brought praise-offerings to hilltops, all through the devil’s teaching. This false god was honored among the heathens in that day, and he is also called by the name Odin in the Danish manner." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crossroads (mythology)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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