The looking-glass is often turned with the face to the wall, or taken out of the room during a thunder-storm, because “quick-silver is so bad to draw the lightning.”
Bathurst, N. B.
Superstition #1408
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1408.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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