The Seven Years Curse

From shattered mirrors to spilled salt, from black cats to the number thirteen — every superstition hides a story, and every story hides a truth. The Seven Years Curse: Broken Mirrors, Spilled Salt, and the Price of Misfortune is a haunting and elegant journey through the darker side of folklore, tracing the origins, meanings, and hidden psychology behind humanity's oldest fears of bad luck. Author Merhsa Boyle unravels centuries of belief, showing how omens once guided lives, protected homes, and shaped the rituals of everyday people across the world. Discover why mirrors were thought to imprison the soul, why iron defied evil, and how a simple act of spilling salt came to symbolize the quarrel between good fortune and chaos. Through history, myth, and insight, this book explores not only how we feared misfortune, but how we learned to cleanse, renew, and begin again. Written in rich, evocative prose, The Seven Years Curse invites the reader into a world where fate, ritual, and psychology meet — where superstition becomes art, and belief becomes the thread that connects us to the mysteries of the past. A perfect companion for readers of occult history, folklore, anthropology, or dark cultural studies — this is a book that lingers in the mind long after the final page.