This morning there was a broken hand-held mirror on my bedroom floor and I am unaware if it was broken (stepped on) by me or another family member but I am scared because what if it was one of the children. Can you all please help me? Also, what is the religious take on this issue? Is there anyway to reverse the effects of it because my life is already in aan uproar. Pleaseh elp me out!
2006-11-02 01:30:03 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Being superstitious is the only thing that will give you bad luck. You'll do it to yourself! I break all kinds of mirriors for fun and sometimes I line up rows of ladders and walk underneath all of them one after another in a room full of black cats running around. I should be dead.. :)
2006-11-02 01:39:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Such things only have power if you believe in them.
If you do, though, and wish to remedy the problem using the ancient methods those who originally came up with the superstition used, here you go:
"An ancient myth our ancestors believed was that the image in a mirror is our actual soul. A broken mirror represented the soul being astray from your body. To break the spell of misfortune, you must wait seven hours (one for each year of bad luck) before picking up the broken pieces, and bury them outside in the moonlight."
I also found:
"Mirrors are the perfect example of an everyday household furnishing fraught with
superstition. Probably the most common belief concerning mirrors is that their
breakage causes seven years of bad luck. Whatever the origins of this belief,
here are some methods to counteract the curse.
* Throw salt over your shoulder.
* Directly after breaking the mirror, turn around three times counterclockwise.
* Burn the mirror, or at least blacken its shards in the flames of a fire. Save
the fragments for a year and then bury them, and the curse will be counteracted
(so you've only had to live with one year of bad luck).
* On the first night after breaking the mirror, light seven white candles and
blow them out at midnight in one breath.
* Touch a tombstone with a piece of the mirror and the hex will be lifted.
Any of these rites can be used, but bear in mind that the "curse" of the broken mirror is usually a self-created one."
Best of luck!
2006-11-02 01:41:59 · answer #2 · answered by skatoolaki 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. This is pure old folks tales. Since it is just superstition, there are no effects to be reversed. You said that your life is already in an uproar even before the mirror is broken. So how can the broken mirror be the cause of your problem (if any). Get this superstition off your mind and be positive.
2006-11-02 01:45:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When i was little i broke this family mirror that we had .. it wasn`t very big, but you know it had a sort of tradition in our family.. the good thing is that those 7 years of badluck didn`t even happen.. i`ve had good days and bad ones and most certainly it wasn`t because of the breaking of that mirror... it`s a superstition.. and if you really must know if you break a glass it is said that an evil dissapears from you house so.. it depends on what you believe because we interpret things the way we want and it depends on us wheter our situation will be good or bad, dora
2006-11-02 02:18:45 · answer #4 · answered by Dora 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO this myth goes back to the times when glass was very expensive.
A few hundred years ago it could literally take years of salary to pay for a mirror broken by a servant.
Just think how your "luck" would be if you had to work for years without a paycheck!!
As for religion. To my knowledge there is nothing in Christianity about it. (I'm a minister.)
As for whomever broke it, I would start checking feet for cuts or embedded glass. Most likely no one was hurt or you would know by now.
2006-11-02 01:37:58 · answer #5 · answered by my_iq_135 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry about it! It's a myth that originated when mirrors were really hard to come by and people didn't understand them.
Given the amount of glass being used these days.. it's a wonder if there is so much bad luck to go around..
Cheers.. gives you an opportunity to shop for something better
2006-11-02 01:36:44 · answer #6 · answered by delhicide 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a broken mirror recalls the day when glass was very expensive. Other than having to pay an exorbitant cost to buy another one, there is no real bad luck in breaking a mirror.
2006-11-02 01:39:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope! No more than walking under a ladder, or a black cat crossing your path is. It's just coincidence if you happen to have a streak of bad luck after a broken mirror or any other B.S. thing like that, okay? Just relax.
2006-11-02 01:59:19 · answer #8 · answered by Republican!!! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its bad luck if you cut yourself on it, and its bad luck for the mirror.
One of the anti-mirror breakings i've seen on here is wait 7 ours to clean it up so you just get the 7 hours instead of the 7 years
2006-11-02 01:38:40 · answer #9 · answered by guhralfromhell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's just superstition, an old wives tale.
Something made up long ago by parents, to scare their children into leaving the mirror alone.
Hope this helps.
2006-11-02 01:37:55 · answer #10 · answered by eyes_of_iceblue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋