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According to the Encyclopedia of Superstitions, people used to believe that the soul of whoever looked in the mirror dwelled inside of it. So, of course, if you cracked a mirror something bad would soon happen to you. Over time, the damage a broken mirror could do was set at seven years. Why seven? Because in numerology, that's the most spiritual of all numbers.
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