Old Fashioned 'cures' for a malevolently haunted house, an early Halloween post.

There are a few definitions of a 'haunted house'.  One is the 'old world' definition; a house has been built on a track-way in the direct path from a cemetery or on a path that the old folk (fair-folk), and witches use.  The dead and the 'old people (fair folk/Seelige Leute -Blessed People-German)' are one and the same, according to old and new world lore, in my opinion.   I say this, because the customs are the same: I.e. "turn your cloaks, because fairies live in old oaks".  In the South Eastern U.S. , the old folklore is that a person must turn their coat inside out when they are pursued by a ghost.  Obviously, a reflection of the simplification of old world lore (there aren't many 'fairy-stories' in the U.S.,) also the British accents were dropped as a way of separating us from them during the "Revolutionary Period", as an example, of this simplification.
The old methods were to hammer a new board in the house, which apparently was symbolic of creating a new space, therefore the spirit would be confused as to how it/he/she might leave and re-enter.   This however, wasn't done on the western side of the house.  The west has the old associations with the land of the Dead in Irish and Welsh lore (Hy Breasil, Avalon, The Isles of the Blessed).  Also, a silver coin or a piece of silver was placed in all door frames in Appalachia, to block the entrance of spirits and witches, according to 'white' and 'black' folklore.
Paul Devereux mentions in his book "Spirit Roads, an Exploration of Otherwordly Routes" that some people in Ireland would pile up three or four stones in the cardinal points before building a home.  If the stones were toppled over in the morning in a period of time, then nothing would be built.  'The People' had a pathway there and a house would be 'haunted' or even obliterated if it were built there.  Also, building an addition on the 'west-side' and possibly the 'north-side' was considered to bring misfortune.  A Scottish belief was that nothing unfortunate came from the East.  Hauntings/Misfortunes were also possible in houses that were dirty, filthy and untidy.