mirrors

(Copied from the Fortean Traveller section) A quick search has revealed the following Yunnan things: ... See if you can find a magic mirror while you are there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_magic_mirror

Mirrors One of the folk-belief reasons given for covering mirrors with crepe during the days of home funerals was that if a coffin got reflected in a mirror it would get "stuck" there and remain there always and you could never ever get it removed ("And they even tried Bon Ami!"), outing...

When my mum was at collage she got invited to a party. The party was held in her friend's, mum's hair salon. The party was well under way when a few well merry party goers decided to try their luck with a spot of devil worship! One girl had herd this story about how to "awaken the devil."...

I was sort-of watching an X-Files rerun last night (the source of of too many of my *facts* about fortean phenomena? :oops: ) and Mulder stared talking about 'psychomantiums', rooms in Victorian-era homes that were mirrored to faciltate spirit communication. A google turns up references to the...

I think the mirror has become significant in folklore as a natural progression from celtic lore where the boundary between air and water represents the joining point of the material and the spirit world. Pools and lakes held sacred signicance for early celts, and the fracturing of the...

Interestingly, mirrors have been used for a long time for magical ends. Most recently a magical group known as the Order of Astarte used a mixture of mirrors and hypnotism to 'evoke demons' (which they see as aspects of our unconscious minds). If I remember correctly there is a practice in India...