On 08/01/2013 04:32 PM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> 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...
>

OK ... I concede. Now that I think about it a bit this kind of ties into 
the age of the notion of horseshoe and luck

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