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  2. How did the superstition that broken mirrors cause bad luck ...

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    Damaging a mirror was believed to invite the wrath of the gods in ancient cultures. Fairfax Media via Getty ImagesEvery human culture has superstitions. In some Asian societies people believe that ...

  3. Superstition - Wikipedia

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    According to superstitions, breaking a mirror is said to bring seven years of bad luck. [62] From ancient Rome to Northern India, mirrors have been handled with care, or sometimes avoided all together. [61] Horseshoes have long been considered lucky. Opinion is divided as to which way up the horseshoe ought to be nailed.

  4. List of bad luck signs - Wikipedia

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    Breaking a mirror is said to bring seven years of bad luck [1]; A bird or flock of birds going from left to right () [citation needed]Certain numbers: The number 4.Fear of the number 4 is known as tetraphobia; in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, the number sounds like the word for "death".

  5. Mirrors in Mesoamerican culture - Wikipedia

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    The use of mirrors in Mesoamerican culture was associated with the idea that they served as portals to a realm that could be seen but not interacted with. [2] Mirrors in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica were fashioned from stone and served a number of uses, from the decorative to the divinatory. [3] An ancient tradition among many Mesoamerican ...

  6. Polterabend - Wikipedia

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    Glass is not broken because for some glass symbolises happiness. Mirrors should not be broken due to the old superstition that breaking a mirror will bring seven years of bad luck, in addition to the good things – or the lack thereof – in the breaker's and/or breakee's past. The couple must thereafter take care of cleaning up the pile of ...

  7. Luck - Wikipedia

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    Luck. In Western culture, a four-leaf clover, a rare variant of the shamrock, is often considered to bestow good luck. Luck is the phenomenon and belief that defines the experience of improbable events, especially improbably positive or negative ones. The naturalistic interpretation is that positive and negative events may happen at any time ...

  8. Bloody Mary (folklore) - Wikipedia

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    Bloody Mary (folklore) An early 20th-century Halloween greeting card depicts a divination ritual in which a woman stares into a mirror in a darkened room to catch a glimpse of the face of her future husband. The shadow of a witch is cast onto the wall at left. Bloody Mary is a legend of a ghost, phantom, witch, or spirit conjured to reveal the ...

  9. Evil eye - Wikipedia

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    A person from Cairo, reputed to possess the evil eye.. The evil eye is a supernatural belief in a curse brought about by a malevolent glare, usually inspired by envy. [1] The belief in the evil eye among humans has existed since prehistory, [1] [failed verification] and amulets to protect against it have been found dating to around 5,000 years ago.