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Touching Wood, Black Cat, Broken mirror... the Origin of These 13 Superstitions (Often Creepy) Revealed and Do We Still Have to Believe It Today?

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They are applied without too much thought, sometimes even mechanically. Touching wood, avoiding broken mirrors, crossing fingers, not putting bread upside down on a table... These everyday gestures come from very old beliefs. According to It interests me, some superstitions date back to Gauls, Romans or the Middle Ages, and were born in a world far more mystical than ours. It remains to be known whether these ancestral rituals still have a meani…
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They are applied without too much thought, sometimes even mechanically. Touching wood, avoiding broken mirrors, crossing fingers, not putting bread upside down on a table... These everyday gestures come from very old beliefs. According to It interests me, some superstitions date back to Gauls, Romans or the Middle Ages, and were born in a world far more mystical than ours. It remains to be known whether these ancestral rituals still have a meani…

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Maison & Travaux broke the news in on Saturday, July 26, 2025.
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