Le 01/08/2013 20:42, James Holsenback nous fit lire :
> Don't want no search engine regurgitation so ... who knows where hanging
> a horseshoe over a door came from? Supposed to be good luck charm.

without looking it up, I would say that previously *finding* a horseshoe
was a good luck sign: as horseshoe was expensive to make, it was a
welcome income soon for the finder (selling it to the local blacksmith
and sharing part of the benefit with it: the blacksmith would be paid as
usual by his customers, but the workload would be greatly reduced, hence
a significant benefit (at least on daily food & coal for the blacksmith,
which, on a non-profit-religious-area (non-selfish) would share with his
finding friend))

Hanging horseshoe would then be a sort of treasure's display: the owner
of the barn/house/.. showing to everyone that he has been lucky (and as
superstitious people often believe: luck calls more lucks, troubles more
troubles; so the owner was to be lucky in business and as such became
worthy of more business (because his luck would spill on his
customers/providers too, so better him than someone else))

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