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Epiphany season door chalking on an apartment door in the Midwestern US A Christmas wreath adorning a home, with the top left-hand corner of the front door chalked for Epiphany-tide and the wreath hanger bearing a placard of the archangel Gabriel. Chalking the door is a Christian Epiphanytide tradition used to bless one's home. [1]
The Adoration of the Magi by Edward Burne-Jones (1904) The Epiphanytide tradition of chalking the door involves writing C M B (representing the names of the Three Wise Men as well as the Christian prayer Christus mansionem benedicat) with the year flanking both sides on one's door, as seen here on an apartment door in the Midwestern US.
In Scotland through the mid- to late 1800s, chalking the door of a tenement was a way of notifying residents that they must move out by a given day. [ 1 ] By custom, leases and other similar contracts began or ended on the Scottish term days , which are Whitsunday and Martinmas .
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In case anyone finds the comments below confusing, this article was previously a conflation of the Epiphanytide practice of chalking the door with a historical Scottish legal practice. I've split out the Scottish practice into its own article to end the confusion. Bmcollier 13:04, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
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