Seven years bad luck
By lovelyvelle
@lovelyvelle (639)
December 18, 2008 2:40pm CST
Have you observe if it is true that beaking a mirror brings seven years bad luck? I always heard about it from my folks and sometimes I am worried or having fears if I might break a mirror. One time, somebody broke a mirror I wanted to help him to pick up the pieces from the floor but I just remembered this superstition so I didn't help him, in case I might be a part of his bad luck, because I know have enough bad luck with myself.
Anyway, do you have superstitions that you believe or heard from somebody? What is your view about superstitious belief? Do you mind to share some superstitions that you might have known or heard? Good Luck!
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10 responses
@hildas (3031)
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18 Dec 08
I used to believe in seven years bad luck from breaking a mirror. I broke one around five years ago but I had heard that you wrap all the pieces up in a red napkin or cloth and bury them in the garden, as this stops the bad luck. Well I did this also.
I do not know if it has brought me bad luck or not though. Nothing really bad has happened that was not with me before.
I would never walk under a ladder. I always walk around it. If I spill salt I throw it over both shoulders as I can never remember which one to throw it over.
@lovelyvelle (639)
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18 Dec 08
Oh I remember about that too, if I can spill a salt I pick some with my fingers and throw it over the left shoulder to cancel out the bad luck as what my grandma used to say. Which I am still doing it until now, every time I spilt a salt somewhere because I had been used to, sometimes it just becomes a habit. I even asked why I only need to throw salt over my left shoulder? My grandma said because left side where the bad angels are and in the right side where the good angels are, and angels are the one who protects us from danger if they need to.
@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
19 Dec 08
[i]Hi lovely,
I heard that too but I don't believe it since I broke a mirror twice but I never recalled anything bad happen to me, infact, I would say those years I made a lot of achievements in my studies...
I grew up believing several superstition and I am observing some of those! Like, I don't like to sweep at night, will make a wish when it will my first visit of the Church etc!
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@lovelyvelle (639)
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23 Dec 08
Oh yeah, my grandma used to tell me that it's a bad luck to sweep the floor at night which I obeyed and do and get used not to do it on a nightime. But then when I was working as a housekeeper I was only a teenager at that time, because I am used not to do it during night I didn't sweep the floor too, but then they are too meticulous, and they told me, before everybody goes to bed there's should be no dust inside the house. So from that time I started sweeping the floor before I go to bed.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
19 Dec 08
they are just superstitions and don't mean a thing, I don't believe in seven years bad luck, your life would have happened the way it was supposed to happen whether you broke a mirror or not.
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@munhozmib (3836)
• Sao Paulo, Brazil
19 Dec 08
Hello.
I understand that you are a superstitious person and all, but, with all the respect, for me it is just like believing in Santa Claus. There is no way to prove that breaking a mirror can bring you bad luck. What is wrong in breaking a mirror? What would be in the glass that would make you have bad luck? In fact, nothing. In my opinion, all things like these are only stories told by ancient people, perhaps to scare their children or to protect something. Try breaking a glass. Really, do it. Nothing will happen. You will have bad luck if you keep focusing on the negative, though. Try to see the good point of life everytime, and then not even a glass house falling would bring you bad luck.
Respectfully,
Munhozmib.
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@carinio98 (2929)
• Philippines
19 Dec 08
they say braking a mirror can be countered. if you accidentally brake a glass pick all the pieces and buried it into the ground and make a prayer. it will take the bad luck away. but i got some superstition that very rare. do you know that it is bad luck that you leave your meal when your not done? it might get you accident in the street if you live the house. to prevent that you have to rotate it counter clockwise 7 times to pass it to somebody else. do you know that belief?
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@lovelyvelle (639)
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23 Dec 08
Thanks for sharing, yes I know that belief and I believe in it, in fact even how yucky is the food I have in the mealtime I always finish it, it became a habit to me now as we were being told about it since we were kids and it remained in me. And sometimes when I am dining with friends when they left some food in the plate I had to tell them this superstition but they just laughed because they said they had been doing it for all the years of their life and it didn't work like that having an accident just because of not finish eating the meal.
@junerainemay (346)
• Philippines
23 Dec 08
I've always been told of this belief too when I was a kid. And believe it or not, I believed in it till one day out of my clumsiness I broke my own handy mirror that I used to bring in school. I felt so bad about it that I don't feel going to school for a day or two becasue Iwas so afraid anything bad would happen to me or to my surrounding. But mind you, nothing bad did happen back those days and I just realized that maybe some things happen co-incidentally which make us think that it was caused by our superstitious beliefs.
There is nothing wrong with believing in old beliefs by our old folks afterall they have formulated that one by series of similar events in their histories. But the only is that the more you in it, the more that it is likely to happen becasue you keep on forcing yourself to relate all happens to a certain beliefs taught to you when you were still a kid.
Id would rather take it that everything happens on purpose, and if it occurs together (or right after) with your belief then there's a purpose for that. We are all captains of our own life and the outcome of our faith depends in our hands.
@roniroxas (10559)
• Philippines
19 Dec 08
i dont believe on that superstition. things really do break and a mirror is just a glass too that has silver paint at the back. so i dont believe on that. here at home i have four children though they are all teens they break some mirrors already specially the one we use at the bathroom for it is a small and hanging mirror.
@UK_Shree (3603)
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27 Dec 08
I personally do not believe in superstitions. I think that they do nothing but limit you. We have enough visible inhibitions in life (usually by fault of our own) so why let things which we cannot see, and certainly cannot prove (such as superstitions) limit us even further?
@LuvBr0wn13s (765)
• United States
19 Dec 08
The only bad luck about breaking a mirror is the fact that you will probably cut yourself cleaning up the pieces. I suppose if you put a lot of energy in the belief of bad luck you can interpret the not-so-great things that may happen to you as part of that bad luck. It is the same thing as people saying that they are having a bad DAY when something goes wrong. I try to encourage my friends to accept that a bad thing happened and to accept that they had a bad MOMENT. Deal with the bad moment, and don't let it ruin the rest of your day. So a mirror gets broken----pick up the pieces and be glad you don't cut yourself in the process...don't let it ruin years of your life.
