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Parry, Tyler (2011). "An Irregular Union: Exploring the Welsh Connection to a Popular African American Wedding Ritual" in Welsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture: Essays on Adaptations in Literature, Film, Television and Digital Media edited by Audrey L. Becker and Kristin Noone. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc. pp. 124-125.Martin Heath, Jumping the broomstick (bbc.co.uk, 2004).
Jumping the Broom: Besom WeddingsArchivado el 19 de junio de 2016 en Wayback Machine.
Parry, Tyler (2011). "An Irregular Union: Exploring the Welsh Connection to a Popular African American Wedding Ritual" in Welsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture: Essays on Adaptations in Literature, Film, Television and Digital Media edited by Audrey L. Becker and Kristin Noone. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc. pp. 124-125.Martin Heath, Jumping the broomstick (bbc.co.uk, 2004).
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Dundes, Alan (26 de mayo de 1996). «"Jumping the Broom": On the Origin and Meaning of an African American Wedding Custom». The Journal of American Folklore109 (433): 324-329. doi:10.2307/541535.
Sullivan, C. W. (1 de enero de 1997). «"Jumping the Broom": A Further Consideration of the Origins of an African American Wedding Custom». The Journal of American Folklore110 (436): 203-204. doi:10.2307/541813.
Taylor, Orville W. (1958). «Jumping the Broomstick:Slave Marriage and Morality in Arkansas». The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. doi:10.2307/40018908. Taylor cita un fallo de 1882 del juez James Eakin de la Corte Suprema de Arkansas: 'No había matrimonios válidos entre esa clase [los esclavos], en los estados esclavistas de Estados Unidos antes de la emancipación...'
"Las hojas ilustradas de Cathnach a dos peniques de la década de 1820 tenían encantadoras ilustraciones de bodas con palos de escoba" R.B. Outhwaite, Clandestine Marriage in England, 1500–1850, A&C Black, 1995, p. 140.
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Jumping the Broom: Besom WeddingsArchivado el 19 de junio de 2016 en Wayback Machine.
Parry, Tyler (2011). "An Irregular Union: Exploring the Welsh Connection to a Popular African American Wedding Ritual" in Welsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture: Essays on Adaptations in Literature, Film, Television and Digital Media edited by Audrey L. Becker and Kristin Noone. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc. pp. 124-125.Martin Heath, Jumping the broomstick (bbc.co.uk, 2004).