Reply To: Do you take your shoes off when at home?

I think we all would agree that there are many Jewish superstitions and urban legends that are out there that have no valid basis (I never heard that R. Chaim had said that about stepping over children). The question is if anyone knows if this “minhag” has a real basis or is just one of those that we saw a grandparent was makpid on? Not cast aspersions on any grandparent of thos who have commented in the YW CR, but many alte European Jews were not very learned and many practices emerged without any valid basis. Is this one of them?