If these edges were dangerous, they were also powerful places. In folklore, betwixt and between are important zones of transformation. The edge of the water was where wisdom revealed itself; spirits were banished to the spaceless places "between the froth and the water" or "betwixt the bark and the tree." Similarly, temporal junctures between winter and summer, or between night and day, were dangerous moments of intersection with the Otherworld.

XREF: Connects to liminality theory from anthropology (Turner, van Gennep) about rites of passage occurring at thresholds. SEED: Could angle an essay on how modern storytelling uses thresholds — doors, crossroads, twilight — as transformation points.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 113