The Mark on the Doorway

The Prompt

Trace the cultural history of the Nine Men's Morris diagram across at least three distinct contexts — the archaeological (Kurna, Gokstad, the Mary Rose), the literary (Shakespeare), and the apotropaic (witch-marks on English churches). Cite at least three sources and explain how the same geometric pattern shifts between the ludic, the sacred, and the protective.

Completion Criteria

Three citations from distinct contexts and a short essay (three or four paragraphs) on the diagram's layered meanings.

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