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I know, I still haven't read but half of it.... oh well.... maybe someday....

 

Great little tid bits I have one too:

WAY back in the day, mirrors where REALLY expensive. Most of the time, if you could afford to buy a mirror, you most likely had butlers or servants. Because it was somewhat common for them (servants) to be careless with the mirrors, and broke them often at times. They where told that if you break a mirror, it is 7 years of bad luck. That is how that one got started

I *think (not sure) that the entire thing about walking under ladders is bad luck, is from the King Arthur days. When they would siege a castle, they had long ladders to scale the walls sometimes. It was common practice to dump boiling water/oil onto people under the ladder. I saw a 60min special that had a few good ones, just can't remember them all....(it was on TLC I think, or History channel)
Steve

 

Hmmm....I always thought the ladder thing came from a triangle representing the holy trinity and that you are breaking that by walking under it. Maybe they told me that at church when a kid just to fool me.