It's seven years' bad luck for you if you break a mirror, buddy, sorry. But have you ever wondered why? People have come up with all sorts of great reasons since time immemorial.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Josh, Chuck, Jerry, not Dave, but still Dave. Let's go.
Didn't we do a whole episode on mirrors and maybe talk about breaking mirrors?
There's no way we didn't talk about that. But this is definitely an exploded, expanded, really balloony version of that.
Yeah, because we're talking about the idea that if you break a mirror, if you are superstitious, a lot of people would say that brings you seven years of bad luck. And we're going to dig into why that might be. People have been superstitious ever since there have been people about different things and way before the mirror.
And apparently the Greeks were the first people to sort of just start talking about a reflection because the story of Narcissus, falls in love with his image in the stream and drowns and dies. So because of that, the Greeks are like, maybe seeing yourself isn't such a great thing to do.
No. And that was Narcissus who had a tattoo, by the way.
That's right.
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