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writes:you might think i'm stupid for even asking this question. But this morning I dropped my mirror and a chunk of the corner cracked and came off. I am quite superstitious, so I was wondering if it is true that if you break a mirror it's bad luck? My dad said to me it's only if i believe in that, then i will bring bad luck upon myself because i expect it. But it's better to ignore it and move on and things will be fine...I just want to know do you think he's right, or have people broken mirrors and actually had bad luck after?
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reader, anonymous, writes (21 May 2013): YES ‘breaking’ a mirror you do have bad luck after – there’s more for you to clean up! :)
BREAK a glass by dropping it and you’ll also have bad luck after – especially if you don’t sweep it up thoroughly!?
Superstitious is about being gullible, irrational and illogical as to being wise, realistic and logical
DAD IS RIGHT move on and things will be fine…
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reader, anonymous, writes (20 May 2013): Nah, it's not back luck, its bad choices.
I had a broken full length mirror in the trunk of my car for almost a year. It broke moving my daughter to college and I forgot about it until I was making the trip to bring her back home. No bad luck that I'm aware of.
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reader, maisy1 +, writes (20 May 2013):
Its an old wives tale. If you expect to get bad luck you will look for evidence to support it. We all have occasional problems and unexpected welcome suprises, but if we think we are due bad luck we forget the small lottery win, the free coffee in the supermarket and the great bargin, and get hung up on the snagged stockings or being slightly short changed.
Its what psycologists call a circular belief system. The exaggeration of any evidence, no matter how debious, that supports our belief, while ignoring, dismissing or finding fault with anything that disproves our belief.
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reader, Dionee'  +, writes (20 May 2013):
 if you believe bad things will happen (as you say you're superstitious) then bad things will happen or should i say you will associate any bad thing with "oh yes, this is happening cause of that day i chipped the mirror". Don't let it bother you at all cause where you're looking for it (badluck) you will find it. Try not to think superstition
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reader, oldbag +, writes (20 May 2013):
 Hi
My bad luck was hanging a mirror in new flat and it fell off wall and broke.
I do salute magpies if there's only one, but that's just habit - its s'posed to cancel the bad luck they bring.
You make your own luck but everyone has bad days without breaking mirrors or not saluting magpies
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reader, Sageoldguy1465  +, writes (20 May 2013):
 Here's what Stevie Wonder had to say about this matter:
"...Thirteen month old baby,
Broke the looking glass,
Seven years of bad luck,
the good things in your past...."
Couldn't be any clearer than that!
Good luck...
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reader, anonymous, writes (20 May 2013): Worst luck I've had breaking one is the hassle of cleaning it up and having to buy another.
Your dad is right OP, if you go looking for trouble you'll find it. If you start believing bad stuff will happen then you'll find a way of making those things happen.
From what I remember the whole superstition comes from a time when mirrors were prohibitively expensive to buy so in order to make kids more careful with them they started using the bad luck thing.
Same as the walking under a ladder one, there is the potential for an accident, something dropping on your head or knocking it over, so kids were told it's bad luck to keep them safe.
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reader, Grym +, writes (20 May 2013):
With the amount of mirrors i've broken, I will have bad luck until I turn 500 years old. . .if I believed in that sort of thing. It's superstitious nonsense to me. What your father said was true. If you believe in it then you'll ALWAYS ONLY focus on the bad events that happen to you in life. It's more a mind thing than anything else really.
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reader, person12345 +, writes (20 May 2013):
 The worst luck I've had after breaking a mirror was stepping on a piece of it.
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