On 08/01/2013 03:07 PM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> 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))
>

Generally speaking I'd say that finding /anything/ is lucky ... well I 
suppose that finding a beehive /might/ not be. So I'm not sure that 
finding a horseshoe is what makes it lucky.

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