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GUEST,Sadie Damascus | Folklore: Meaning of Color of Shoes? (10) | Folklore: Meaning of Color of Shoes? | 26 Aug 15 |
Hi. In certain versions of Child Ballad 201, Bessie Bell and Mary Gray, there is sung a verse concerning color of shoes. Mary and Bessie, two young women who live together in the woods, "would not wear the shoes of blue, nor yet the shoes of yellow, but they would wear the shoes of green, to run through the streets of Yarrow." I have been told green is the witch's or Wiccan color, and that it has something to do with their sexyuality and/or profession. Can anyone advise me? |