For centuries, families knotted cord into this four-looped design and hung it over the front door. The same shape was carved into door frames and sewn into the lining of coats.
The logic was simple. The knot is one continuous line with no beginning and no end. Anything harmful that entered its curves had no way out.
It wasn't decoration. It was the household's first line of defense — passed from mother to daughter, generation after generation.
Then the witch trials came. Overnight, the symbol that protected your family became evidence against you. The knots came down. The teaching stopped.
The design survived in only a handful of places. Most people alive today have never seen it.
