Breaking a Mirror Causes Seven Years of Bad Luck

It was believed that if you looked into a mirror, you were actually transferring and storing part of your soul within the reflection. A famous clergyman named john brand he wrote back in 17 77 about this ancient kind of divination by the looking glass. If there's a single mirror on this planet that you didn't want to break, it would be the world's largest man made mirror at the european southern observatory telescope. This sucker is 14 feet in diameter,. It's convex in shape, and it weighs a crushing three point five tons, seven thousand pounds.