{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_eng_osc_osc53_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_eng_osc_osc53_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_neu_eng_osc_osc53_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/osc/osc53.htm","summary":"To let a mirror fall and be broken is even now regarded as unfortunate, though not so ill-starred an accident as among the people of earlier days, who believed that the party to whom the mirror belonged would lose his best friend. In the M\u00e9moires de Constant, premier Valet de Chambre de I'Empereur sur la Vie priv\u00e9e de Napoleon, (Paris, 1830), Buonaparte's superstition respecting the looking-glass is particularly mentioned:--\"During one of his campaigns in Italy he broke the glass over\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Origins of Popular Supersitions and Customs: Divination and Omens: (12) Looking-Glass Omens","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","translated_text":null,"word_count":266}