A couple jumping the broom. Jumping the broom is a phrase and custom relating to wedding ceremonies in different cultural traditions, found in " many diverse cultures, those of Africa − Europe including Scotland, Hungary and Gypsy culture ", all of which " include brooms at wedding rituals.

Instead of placing the broom on the ground, and jumping together, the broom was placed in an angle by the doorway.

However, there are no recorded instances of West African or Central African weddings that involved jumping over a broom.

Another author states that it is likely both blacks and whites in the antebellum south accepted jumping the broom as a quasi-marriage ceremony since the practice or symbols used in it ( specifically the broom ) had similar meanings in their respective cultures.

She claims jumping over the broom was definitely a feature in both European and African wedding ceremonies, but believes that the slave practice likely originated in Africa and not Europe.

Or, alternatively, whoever landed on the ground first after jumping the broom was predicted to be the decision maker in the marriage.

It has often been assumed that, in England, jumping over the broom ( or sometimes walking over a broom ), always indicated an irregular or non-church union ( as in the expressions " Married over the besom ", " living over the brush "), but there are examples of the phrase being used in the context of legal weddings, both religious and civil.

The ceremonial jumping of the broom served as an open declaration of settling down in a marriage relationship.

They called it jumping the broom.

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Certain cultural practices, such as " jumping the broom " to celebrate marriage, hailed from the plantations ; other customs, such as some names used for black towns, reflected African heritage.

The horse does not have to possess perfect jumping form, but should be safe over fences and have good scope.

Freestyle Motocross ( FMX ), a relatively new variation of supercross, does not involve racing and instead concentrates on performing acrobatic stunts while jumping motocross bikes.

He engages her in a game of jumping across, which does not end until Birk almost falls down.

When his uncle loses $ 8, 000 and George does not know that his rival, Mr. Potter, has it, George is on the verge of committing suicide by jumping from a bridge ; however, his guardian angel, Clarence, stops him.

It is also sometimes referred to as bumper hitching, bumpershining, poggying, or bizzing, bumper jumping, and hooky bobbing, the latter three referring primarily to the equivalent done on icy or snowy streets without a skateboard or roller skates, but skitching does not include a snowboard ; the proper wording for that is snitching.

Even Clowes once an ardent enthusiast became, " convinced that religion does not consist in bodily movements, whether shouting, jumping, falling, or standing ".

The breed does well in eventing, due to its stamina, speed, and jumping ability.

When he does sleep, he dreams again about jumping to his death.

After having her stomach pumped and after rejoining the family, she tries again by jumping out of a moving van on a bridge and although she does not die, she is seriously injured and spends the remainder of the movie in a wheelchair.

His special abilities include jumping faster and higher than the other characters, and he can use his sword as a projectile weapon that does not use up any ammo.

Meanwhile ... in France, a mother tells a little girl to stop jumping on the bed, which she does.

Much like the Camel Slug in the previous two games, it provides no protection to the player, but has a slightly better jumping ability and also does not harm the player if it touches a rolling bomb.

However, she does the same the following day and this time overpowering him after jumping him from behind in the barn.

The jumping sequence chosen does not necessarily have to be the one that would have resulted in the most captures ; however, one must make all available captures in the chosen sequence.

Baragon does not have a heat ray or a glowing horn, but he still has his burrowing and extraordinary jumping abilities.

The human has to face his ultimate fears and does so by jumping over the fire.

Xenophon also suggests the rider loosen the reins and grab the mane when jumping a ditch or climbing an incline, so that he does not pull the horse in the mouth.

Like other jumping spiders, it does not build a web.

This breed enjoys jumping and does it really well, without breaking any objects due to its notorious agility and elegance.

Although the fences in a show hunter course are usually " natural " poles and standards, as opposed to the brightly colored fences seen in show jumping, the show hunter course does not include rock walls, ditches, or banks that might be seen in the hunt field.

Therefore, it is not imperative that the horse has perfect movement or jumping form, but it needs good manners and an attractive way of going that does not detract from the rider's performance.

The ideal equitation mount has less bascule than the show hunter, because it is easier for a rider to maintain the correct jumping position on a " flatter " horse that does not throw the rider out of the saddle when it jumps.

Legs are used for standing, walking, jumping, running, kicking, and similar activities, and constitute a significant portion of a person's mass.

When the three travellers finally reach the beach-after bribing a local boat contractor, taking a long swim, trekking the dense jungle, stumbling across a marijuana plantation and avoiding its heavily armed guards, and eventually jumping down a waterfall-they are faced with a tight-knit and largely self-sufficient community which has almost completely shut itself off from civilization and which has developed a sophisticated hierarchy under the quasi-dictatorial rule of a young American woman called Sal and her South African lover, Bugs, who, along with Daffy, discovered the beach and founded the community there in 1989.

The individual show jumping competition was the only individual equestrian event at the 1912 Olympics in which Sweden won no medals, with the gold medal instead going to Cariou of the French to add to his bronze medal from the dressage, Rabod von Kröcher taking the silver for Germany, and Emmanuel de Blommaert winning the bronze for Belgium.

After ' judging ' ( i. e., killing ) them and taking their dimension jumping warp devices, Judge Death travelled to Mega-City One, against the opinions of his colleagues, in order to ' dispense justice '.

: The scene in which the scientist becomes cosmic energy and his wife grabs him and brings him back to human form is straight out of my Dyadic Cyclone ( 1976 )... As for the scientist's regression into an ape-like being, the late Dr. Craig Enright, who started me on K ( ketamine ) while taking a trip with me here by the isolation tank, suddenly " became " a chimp, jumping up and down and hollering for twenty-five minutes.

This may consist of one participant turning and jumping the rope, or a minimum of three participants taking turns, two of whom turn the rope while one or more jumps.

Millar rode Big Ben to more than 40 Grand Prix titles including six Spruce Meadows Derbys, as well as taking the world cup show jumping championship two years in a row-the first World Cup Final coming at Gothenburg, Sweden in 1988, and then again the next year in Tampa, Florida.

Therefore, when she once again encounters Hope, who was saved from the funeral pyre by Dahak, Gabrielle sacrifices herself to save Xena by jumping into a lava pit and taking Hope down with her.

“ Moving from Boston to L. A., transitioning from being a girl to being a young woman, living on my own, taking a different direction sonically, and just really finding myself and just jumping into a new chapter of life .”

She has been on the WSJ-USA board, and served as president for three years, taking a lead role in the battle to get women's ski jumping into the Olympic Winter Games.

Despite taking five of Savage's flying elbow drops, Warrior won the match after hitting the Macho King with three jumping shoulder blocks and forced Savage to retire.

It can be an agricultural pest, feeding on cereals, rice and peanuts, as well as being predatory, taking poisonous snakes and even jumping up into the air to snatch an insect off a leaf.

He was amused at the violent gestures and jumping around of the players, taking none of it seriously.

A talented athlete in his youth, Nykvist's first cinematic effort was to film himself taking a high jump, to improve his jumping technique.

In recent years, Jaxson has been taking bigger risks, including making bungee jumping and zipline entrances from the EverBank Field light standards.

The player jumps off using two feet instead of taking steps before jumping off using one foot.

He proved himself to be back to peak fitness with a silver medal performance at the 2010 European Athletics Championships ( jumping 17. 51 m ) and then taking the gold medal at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup later that season.

Right before the Runaways boarded the time machine taking them home, Lillie changes her mind and decides to stay instead, due to fear of jumping into the future.

In the competition of high jumping, a man jumped over the bar after taking just two steps back.

From the early 1900s, Oberhof became a center for winter sports, with luge, nordic skiing and ski jumping taking place in the town's regularly updated sports facilities.

Horses were stabled in Hilversum, a town 30-km from Amsterdam and the location of the majority of the equestrian competition, with two jumping competitions taking place in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.

He was a long jumper before taking up triple jumping in 2004, and the same year he won the bronze medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

This is often described as the horse taking the shape of a dolphin jumping out of the water, with the horse's back up, and its head reaching forward and down over the fence.