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A horseshoe on a door is regarded as a protective talisman in some cultures. Horseshoes have long been considered lucky. They were originally made of iron, a material that was believed to ward off evil spirits, and traditionally were held in place with seven nails, seven being the luckiest number. [22]
The first literary mention of nailed horseshoes is found within Ekkehard's Waltharius, [3] written c. 920 AD. The practice of shoeing horses in Europe likely originated in Western Europe, where they had more need due to the way the climate affected horses' hooves, before spreading eastward and northward by 1000 AD.
Horses were ridden and used for work by humans for thousands of years before horseshoes were invented. The Ancient Greeks did not shoe their horses, and Xenophon in his classic work on horsemanship [ 4 ] wrote, "naturally sound hooves get spoiled in most stalls," and advised measures to strengthen horses' feet:
The nailed iron horseshoe first clearly appeared in the archaeological record in Europe in about the 5th century AD when a horseshoe, complete with nails, was found in the tomb of the Frankish King Childeric I at Tournai, Belgium. [9] In Gallo-Roman countries, the hipposandal appears to have briefly co-existed with the nailed horseshoe. [1] [7]
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A horseshoe on a door is regarded as a protective talisman in some cultures. Horseshoes are considered a good luck charm in many cultures, including those of England, Denmark, [2] Lithuania, and Estonia, and its shape, fabrication, placement and manner of sourcing are all important. A common belief is that if a horseshoe is hung on a door with ...
This 15th-century battle scene shows the powerfully built horses used in warfare. From The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello.. During the Decline of the Roman Empire and the Early Middle Ages, much of the quality breeding stock developed during the classical period was lost due to uncontrolled breeding and had to be built up again over the following centuries. [1]
Sports are an important part of the $600 million tourism economy, according to Visit Tri-Cities, which recruited the first-ever horseshoe pitching world tournament ever held in Washington.