Is it truly bad luck if you break a looking glass/mirror?

Question

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!

Answer 1

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.. :)

Answer 2

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!

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

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.

Answer 9

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

Answer 10

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.

Answer 11

It is just a myth! Nothing bad will come from breaking a mirror!

Answer 12

Well i don't really know of any curse with a broken mirror but i think you might have accidentally broken it yourself,but if you are so scared why not pray.

Answer 13

spirits swirl in mists around you

when partaking of cheese be careful to chew

Broken mirrors should not affect you

watch for a person who is named Lou

Answer 14

If you are ugly then it is good luck because you will not see you ugly face anymore if you are beatiful then it is bad luck and the reasons are the same

Answer 15

No, you're certainly impressive. and that i'm no longer in basic terms asserting that, I assure you. you're particularly ideal. If somebody replaced into conversing undesirable approximately you, it capacity they have been jealous of you...extraordinarily in the event that they have been fellow women. yet no, you're impressive!

Answer 16

Things happenned containing both sides. You stand for good, is good. You stand for bad is bad.

Answer 17

Chocolate: it's only bad luck if you got cut or have to buy it back, other than that, you'll do just fine.

Answer 18

Well the glass companies feel your misfortune...is they're good luck.

Answer 19

Hi!!It's true if you believe it! But I think you'd better relax a little bit, accidents may happen!!

Answer 20

It is only bad luck if you believe in it.

Answer 21

More danger of getting cut than anything else.