Bad Luck Files - Breaking a Mirror
Mirror mirror on the wall…a disaster if you fall. I’ll never believe you if you say you’ve never thought about the years of misfortune after breaking a shining mirror. 7 years of misfortune to be precise. But have you ever wondered how this superstition has spread in our modern world? Answering this question is not a big deal. At the beginning of time, even if mirrors didn’t exist, the superstition probably evolved from the fact that first humans saw their reflections in the water, believed that the image they were seeing was a stranger ,and probably an enemy. When people acquired a little bit of consciousness, the representation changed. They started believing the reflection was their actual soul and ruffling the surface would mean injuries and danger to both body and soul. Also a lot of ancient myths told mirrors had magical powers, including the power to foreseen the future and were thought to be devices of the Gods. Breaking the mirror meant ending the powers of the object. M...