This video explains the real reason people think breaking mirror is bad luck. Superstitions. Today, we see them as the zany affectations of those friends who won't stop telling us how Mercury is affecting our love lives, but to some, they're the guiding force in day-to-day activities. Salt cannot be spilled. Ladders demand a careful sidestep. Cracks must not be trodden upon, lest the chiropractic health of one's sainted mother be thrown into disarray.
And of course, a broken mirror leads, inevitably, to seven years of bad luck. It's just one of those things that you hear one time when you're a kid and it sticks with you for the rest of your life. Like just about every other hackneyed folkloric truism, this one has a long history. It's even rooted in the ancient Roman tradition, with toga-clad dudes of yore apparently holding some strong opinions on the subject of cracked reflective surfaces portending ill fate, which of course begs the question "just how many mirrors got broken in Pompeii, anyway?"
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