If a mirror suddenly falls to the ground and does not break good fortune will enter your life.
Mirror on back of door superstition.
The front door it s the primary entrance to your home.
These stories evolved from the times when people used water as a mirror.
To get rid of a sty.
That s the bad news.
To get rid of the sty stand behind a closed door and say sty sty get out of my eye fifteen times in one breath.
Should you ever get a sty on your eye it wouldn t hurt to test out this superstition.
The front door allows access to you your guests and according to superstition good luck and evil spirits.
Some people like placing a mirror close to the front door or foyer for convenience.
In some superstitions the deceased will try and grab the souls of the living who look in the possessed mirrors.
The broken mirror is probably the focus of more superstitions than any other subject is.
It s believed that mirrors have the ability to activate the energy within a room clients i work with will sometimes choose to keep a mirror in their bedroom and tell me that they sleep soundly.
Some clients love the idea of no mirrors in the bedroom or may just place a long.
On the other hand mirrors should be used carefully in the bedroom says nyc based feng shui consultant laura cerrano.
Foyer and front door 11.
The classical schools tend to recommend against a mirror facing the front door do so because for them the reflection of a mirror reflects energy back.
I shrugged and smiled.
There s nothing wrong with having a mirror at the foyer or close to the front door.
There are a variety of superstitions rituals and curios that are associated with the front door of one s home.
There are many superstitions involving mirrors.
Breaking a mirror is supposed to bring seven years of bad luck.
They believed life was renewed every seven years which explains the length of the curse.
Why did you knock if that s your room she asked head tilted quizzically.
Seven years bad luck.
That s why just for fun we ve rounded up a few popular mirror myths and superstitions.
If you enter in one door and then leave through a different door bad luck will befall you both.
Therefore a mirror reflecting the front door pushes away energy rather than welcomes qi into the home.
Mirror facing the front door causes instability.
The hard part is.
This superstition dates back to the romans who believed that life renewed itself every seven years and that breaking a mirror would thus cause damage to the soul it was reflecting at the time for that duration.
Perhaps the most well known mirror myth the belief that breaking a mirror would bring you seven years bad luck dates back to the ancient romans.
Many people believe that it is bad luck to sleep in front of a mirror.
Oh you know just in case if like me you ve traveled a fair bit and stayed in various hotels i m sure you ll agree that some places just give you the creeps.
They have a final chance to take care of how they look before they leave the house.
