A Discovery of Witches has soooo much to cover that I have split this review up into 3 parts. |

| MIN MARKERS |

|1:30 | Everyday Folklore, Broken Mirrors

| 6:10 | Beginning chit chat and banter

|11:00| Review of A Discovery of Witches, part 2

|INFO REFERENES| Everyday Folklore, If you break a mirror you get seven years bad luck.|

https://www.twowaymirrors.com/mirror-superstitions/ |

https://www.framemymirror.com/5-superstitions-and-myths-about-mirrors/ |

https://www.illuminated-mirrors.uk.com/blog/7-years-bad-luck-the-truth-behind-the-superstition/ |

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326082213_The_broken_mirror_syndrome_vs_constructive_self-criticism#:~:text=The%20broken%20mirror%20syndrome%20is,knots%20of%20negative%20emotions%20and |

https://folklorethursday.com/folklife/seven-years-bad-luck/ |

| MUSIC CREDIT |

"Glass Smash, Bottle, C.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org

“Easy Trip Trap” The Brothers Records,

“Skeleton Dance” by Myuu

“Heaven and Hell” by Jeremy Blake

| DIALOGUE CREDIT |

INTRO

"A werewolf can be killed only with a silver bullet?"

- THE WOLFMAN

"Because I'm the chosen one and there are vampires"

- BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (film)

"You in danger girl"

- GHOST

"My name is Sabrina Spellman, and I will not sign it away."

- THE CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA

"Am I dead?"

- THE VAMPIRE DIARIES

"We don't allow black magic."

- LEGACIES

"Witches aren't real."

- CHARMED

"Once the world was full of wonders but. . . . . . It belongs to humans."

- A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES

"I myself am, strange and unusual."

- BEETLEJUICE

| TRANSCRIPT |

Megan Erickson
Welcome to folklore Friday.

Megan Erickson
In the episode description I have listed the segments of the show with their minute markers. That way you can skip right to what you want to hear

every day.

breaking a mirror is seven years bad luck. This superstition is believed in various parts of the world. But where did this belief come from? Many cultures believe that a mirror can be a window to the soul. Which is why many folkloric beliefs are that supernatural creatures such as vampires have no reflection because they have no soul. The lore of seven years bad luck upon breaking a mirror is thought to originate from Roman lore. The belief was that every seven years life and the soul would renew itself. And any parts of your life that were not quite right would fall into place and all would be right. A mirror was thought to have a window to the soul. So if a mirror was broken, especially if your image was the final thing it reflected, then you were bound to endure seven long years of misfortune until the cycle ended and your good luck was renewed. And since we are human, we are prone to be clumsy in one way or another. So there were measures that could be taken to avoid misfortune if you happened to break a mirror. Some of the rituals included taking the shattered pieces and burning them by the light of a full moon. Or taking one fragment to a cemetery and placing it against a tombstone to transfer the bad luck to someone who no longer roamed the earthly plane. The thought was the bad luck would dissipate into the ground since the soul was no longer there to attach itself to. In Russia and Kazakhstan, breaking a mirror evicting evil spirits from their home, they will hunt the person who caused the damage as an act of revenge. In Fung Shui a broken mirror distorts good energy. In Switzerland, the last person to look in a broken mirror is the first to die. But others claim your misfortune depends on how the mirror breaks. If it breaks into small pieces, your bad luck will be small. But be afraid if your mirror breaks into large pieces, because your bad luck will be significant. And once the mirror is broken, looking at your reflection in the shards is bad luck in both India and Russia. in psychology, there is a term called the broken mirror syndrome. It is applied to women who have suffered domestic abuse from a male partner. The thought is that she no longer sees herself as whole and complete, but broken, only viewing herself through the eyes of her abuser. Although this term is metaphorical, it does paint a picture of how viewing yourself through the distorted view of an abuser can make one feel broken. Is it possible that in the past when people would see their reflection And broken pieces of a mirror, it would scar them psychologically. Could it be that seeing one's reflection literally broken into pieces was so emotional, that it was easy to think that misfortune lay ahead? To see one space in shards could remind someone that As humans, we are breakable physically and emotionally. And the lives we live are just as fragile. So, which is it? A superstitious belief that the soul renews every seven years? Or the psychological effects of seeing one's reflection in broken glass? Tell me, what do you think?

Unknown Speaker
Now back to your regularly scheduled program.

Megan Erickson
Okay, hello again. So I'm joined again by my friend, Holly. Hello. Oh, and my name is Megan, I keep introducing my guests, but not myself. So I'm your host, Megan. And Holly is doing a FaceTime with me because I he, I went through and I was editing our episode. And there was just a few things that we said that were inaccurate. We were comparing this story to another story. And we were just bashing on that other story, which there's a lot to bash but the things we were saying weren't accurate. And so there's a lot of that I couldn't use. But this because Holly, and I think very similarly. Yes. And there was just also some good stuff that I wanted to talk about that we didn't talk about, and it gives me an excuse to call Holly so on if you don't know, Holly lives in Spokane, I live in Bellingham. So that's why we're doing FaceTime. And I let I when I went to visit her and her husband, I logged on to two of my streaming accounts. And then and then I said, you need to watch this show on this one, and then this show on the other one, and so I gave him Hulu and shutter and it hasn't affected us at all, by the way, like so cuz I told Chris, you like what? I was like, Well, I'm the one that pays for Hulu and shutter. So I think I can decide. He's like, okay, but if it cuts out, like, you gotta change your password. But it's totally fine. But you guys watch Brooklyn nine, nine, which was the show that I suggested.

HOLLY
Good. Oh, my gosh.

Megan Erickson
It's so good. What else have you been watching on Hulu?

HOLLY
So let's see. So we did nine, nine, and I'm not gonna lie oh nine.

Megan Erickson
Andrew Knight quoted all the time. Now. It's so easy to do. It's so fun.

Unknown Speaker
It's so amazing.

Unknown Speaker
And then I found out that chip and Joanna Gaines is a fixer upper. And I used to watch that show when I was younger and actually had to be. And I remember some of the episodes and oh my gosh, I flipped when I saw that on there. And so I started watching that. And then I realized that I can only watch it on weekends. Because I was watching it during the week. And then I realized I was not going to bed. I had to like pace

Megan Erickson
yourself.

HOLLY
Not watch it during the week. I'm only allowed to watch it on weekends. So I guess what I'm doing?

Megan Erickson
I've done Yes, I've done similar

Unknown Speaker
show is that it's just like it makes you you get so involved. You can't help it. Next thing you know, it's like two o'clock in the morning and you have to be up at 5am like,

Megan Erickson
Oh my gosh, that just happened. Yeah. I think that's why Chris and I have the rotation rule. Like we don't just binge something, we say okay, let's watch an episode of The Great and supernatural and criminal minds. And so because you're getting this like, mini story, but sometimes they'll get on a kick. There's some shows that are too much. You can't want like Katherine, it's called the Great bits about Catherine the Great you would not like it. It's like, it's really explicit. Like when they do sex stuff. They do sex stuff. When they do violence. They do violence and it's like oh my god and so that's the show. You can't binge. So we usually do our harsh shows first, and in the medium, and then we end on a comedy because I can't end the night on criminal minds, because I'm just like, Okay, I gotta cleanse my palate. So we always have. Yeah, we have an extreme show, a medium show and a comedy. And our comedy right now is How I Met Your Mother. editor's note. Btw, I am aware that there are things that can be problematic with How I Met Your Mother, because it's an older show. And since this podcast is half film and TV reviews, I'm aware. It's an all white cast. And one of the characters is pretty much a womanizer. So even though I watch it, I acknowledge it's problematic. Just had to put that in there. Okay. So that's like what we watched when we're done watching the others.

HOLLY <...

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