What Is The Origin Of The Breaking Mirror Superstition?
Most people are aware that breaking a mirror carries a sentence of 7 years of bad luck. This can be traced back to the Romans who were the first to make glass mirrors. They held the belief (as did the Chinese, Africans, Indians, and Greeks) that any distortion of one’s image could mean a corruption of the soul. If a mirror broke then the reflection or soul would be trapped in the mirror’s ‘world’. So, the broken soul would lead to broken health. Many people still believe, as the Roman’s did, that the human body undergoes a renewal of sorts every seven years. Therefore, the broken mirror’s effect would last until the soul had fully restored itself.
