Talk:Concealed shoes

Buying shoes for a match-maker
I may be able to source what I write here. If I can, it could be worth adding in an appropriate section which links fertily with shoes. In China, if one finds one's future spouse by means of an intermediary (a paid one is called a 媒婆 or "méipó" in pinyin), then when the wedding takes place, it is traditional that one buys this matchmaker a pair of shoes. It might be useful to show how cross-cultural the association of shoes with fertility or marriage goes. I may also be able to search out sourced ideas of concealed shoes in Chinese buildings, which would be directly relevant to this article. Any comments about suitability, anyone? DDStretch   (talk)  16:06, 16 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Sounds good. The article currently hedges its bets about concealed shoes in China, so it would be good to be a bit more definitive about that. George Ponderevo (talk) 23:41, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

possible improvements!
I have added a couple of web based publications and would like to add http://www.academia.edu/553987/Hoosier_Footprints_Concealed_Shoes_in_Indiana. I see that the author is already cited has someone contacted the publisher in reference to their request of no citing without permission!! will access climate controlled case today and take some images of the museum's collection if I can. Edmund Patrick – confer 05:47, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Found in Canada
News article: "Nova Scotia Archeologist digs into the history behind old N.S. houses, one shoe at a time Shoe recently discovered in the walls of a 190-year-old Acadian home by Alex Cooke · CBC News · Posted: Jan 14, 2021"

Another article: "Century-old shoe mystery solved: Footwear in walls meant to ward off evil spirits Author of the article: Calgary Herald Published Mar 30, 2021"

To add to the topic article.

Ed 2607:FEA8:4A2:4100:21D2:54F6:19BC:D682 (talk) 08:36, 6 April 2023 (UTC)