Mar 11 2009
Mirror Mirror, Please Don’t Fall
Hey dark passengers. Welcome to our third installment of Superstition Week. As you can see from the title, tonight’s topic is the dangerous and deadly mirror. Though I don’t know how much stock I put in this particular superstition, I do enjoy it because it is quite easy to remember.
Basically, anything that happens with a mirror means you’ll die. Woo.
Care to join me in just how much worse a broken mirror can get than seven years of bad luck?
One origin of the superstition is that mirrors actually reflect a person’s soul. This is why they should be covered at funerals. It is believed that an uncovered mirror could capture the soul of the deceased, forever trapping it. Some writers of the superstition claim mirrors were invented by the devil for this very reason.
Another common belief is that a mirror allows one to look into their future. So if you break a mirror then you are, in essence, destroying your future. And we all know that no future means death.
Let’s take a look at the other ways mirrors are trying to kill us:
- A mirror falling of its own accord means death is on the way
- Your face + candlelight + a mirror = very bad luck
- Some paranormal and past life proponents believe that if you look into a mirror in a dark room, illuminating your face with a flashlight from below, that your face will change in the mirror to reveal all the people your soul has inhabited in previous lives
Does anyone out there have any ideas I might have missed? What do you think: does breaking a mirror mean 7 years of bad luck or is it just a silly superstition?
Jen
“Let your dark passenger come out to play…Be your own nemesis!”
Why does candlelight mixed with mirror mean something so bad?
Come to think about it, what about all those old waterbeds with canopies that had mirrors on them (that just sounds gross to me, but if candlelight’s mixed in?).
Lots to think about.
You know, I never did find any reasoning behind the candlelight being bad. I’m still wondering that myself…