# Cancelling your luck?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancelling-your-luck/218527>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 12, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancelling-your-luck/218527 "2003-12-12T04:56:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancelling-your-luck/218527/1 "2003-12-12T04:56:46Z")

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What happens if your lucky horseshoe falls off the wall and breaks a mirror?

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**Author:** ![jesleigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jesleigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesleigh)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancelling-your-luck/218527/2 "2003-12-12T05:49:08Z")

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you clean up the glass and go on with your life

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**Author:** ![SJSB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@SJSB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SJSB)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancelling-your-luck/218527/3 "2003-12-12T11:57:35Z")

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Is there a punchline for this? 😃

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**Author:** ![nvestigator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@nvestigator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nvestigator)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancelling-your-luck/218527/4 "2003-12-12T18:55:51Z")

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Not being superstitious, I am inclined to agree with **jesleigh** , in that the only thing that would happen is the inevitable mess.

However, according to legend, and information found at [this website](http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/reading/unit6/facts/fs_super.html),

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> St. Dunstan turned the Devil loose after making him promise never to enter a home on which a horseshoe was fixed.

From this we can derive that an unaffixed horseshoe is no longer lucky, thus the broken mirror will bring seven years of bad luck, despite the fact that it was caused by a supposed _lucky object_.