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OT - Mirrors on the outside of a house

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Royse

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This stone house was built in 1902.
Above each second story window a mirror is inlaid.
One window has a round mirror and the other a trapezoid.
They are round and trapezoid on each side of the house,
so not an accident.
Anyone know the story behind them?
I assume superstition of the period but I'm curious.

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Well if it was lower,I'd say it was to distract you with your own reflection so you didn't look inside. lol
 
No Harry, but I live just a couple miles West of Palo!
The house is actually in Crystal.
 
That would sure work for my granddaughter Randy!
She can't pass a mirror without "prissing" in it! lol
 
For the same reason as a shiny "horse brass" is placed in the middle of the forehead of a driving horse bridle--it reflects/prevents evil spirits from entering??? That's been the belief of people who make/use harness bridles on driving horses for hundreds and hundreds of years and who continue to make/use the horse brass as a part of the driving bridle today. kelly
 
Thanks John, I looked it up and this is kind of what I was thinking.
Vastu forbids the use of round or oval mirrors as I read, so
it would be slightly different but that was the kind of superstition
I suspected was behind them to begin with.
 
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