Le 01/08/2013 22:04, James Holsenback nous fit lire :
> 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.

Would finding a purse with many coins, when the daily pay may be as low
as 1 coin, be lucky ?

Iron was expensive. Manufactured iron as horseshoe was really not cheap.
Oh look, you found one...

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