Show breaking a mirror don t be alarmed if you break a mir and some one says that you 11 ha e seven years bad luck because like most superstitions it Is all nonsense and merely the end of witchcraft that was practiced during the middle ages in those days if some one wanted to do baini to some one else he would contrive to break a mirror into which the second person had lately peered it was said that it if the mirror arror could be broken beffie the image of the victim had evaporated seven years bad luck would be bound to follow the Fm smashing ashing of the glass actually of course the whole idea Is ridiculous just as ridiculous as thinking that the spilling of salt will bring bad luck that particular superstition Is the re suit of the very ancient idea that to ft spill salt at a man mans s table after oae has hag dined with him Is to insult bam and challenge him to battle |