Are You Superstitious?

[leroy]

they make no sense break a mirror 7 years bad luck, why 7 years

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[Jiberjabber]

they make no sense break a mirror 7 years bad luck, why 7 years

Seven Years Bad Luck

The superstition that breaking a mirror will bring seven years of bad luck goes back to the Romans. They were the first people to make glass mirrors. They also believed that mirrors could steal a piece of your soul. If the reflection was distorted, the soul would be trapped. Fortunately, after seven years the soul would be renewed. Until then, the person would suffer bad luck.




Source : http://myths.answers.com/other/5-sur...ions-explained



Or alternatively ...

Where the Hell Did This Come From?
Part of this goes back to the stone age, when the first caveman wandered to a lake for a drink and saw his own handsome sloping brow reflected back at him from the water. Having no knowledge of optics--at this point mankind's still struggling with pointed-stick technology--it was a logical leap for him to believe that this reflection was a duplication of himself and shared a part of his soul somehow (though he probably wondered why that lazy fucker in the water never helped out with the fishing).

This way of thinking stubbornly held for millennia, with the belief being that damaging a mirror--and thus your reflection--would damage a part of your soul or cause it to be trapped in the mirror forever, like the supervillain criminals from Superman II.
There's also a more simple explanation. Glass mirrors, as opposed to less breakable ones made of polished metal, weren't really available until the 16th century and were very expensive luxuries reserved for the upper classes. If the servants that cleaned these mirrors were to break one, well, let's just say it was a lot easier to replace a human being back then than a mirror.
Also, if a more middle-class family were to buy one and then break it, it would probably take quite a while to scrounge up the money for a new one--say, around seven years. So the warning to clumsy children wasn't so much about "bad luck" for seven years if they broke the mirror, but rather "continuous beatings."

http://www.cracked.com/article_17231...lanations.html

[Clueless]

Yes I am superstitious when it suits - I find that I am always looking for extra Magpies & for black cats to cross my path