Since ancient times, people have used mirrors not only for everyday use, but also for conducting magical rituals. There are many fortune-telling about mirrors, and many psychics always have a small mirror with which they work and give answers to questions from people who have turned to them with a problem. Why mirrors are hung up when a person dies, will be told in this article.
Why close mirrors when a person dies?
I must say that this tradition belongs to the category of superstition and if we turn to church rules and dogmas, then the ministers do not give any recommendations on this score. However, ordinary inhabitants have been following it for more than one hundred years and are not going to refuse it yet. From time immemorial the mirror symbolized a dual reality and was the boundary between two worlds - the real and the other world. That is, with his help you could look into the Looking Glass. In occasion of why the mirrors are closed for the deceased, there are several versions:
- The mirror itself represents a kind of door to the other world, which is dominated by dark forces. It is believed that on the threshold of the Looking Glass the departed soul is already met by devil servants and will do everything to tighten it to themselves, especially if a person was very bright and kind during his life.
- Another version, why shut the mirrors at the funeral, says that the soul, which has departed from the body, is next to it for 40 more days and can get lost, having got into the World behind the looking-glass and never again to get out.
- Wondering why the mirrors are closed after the death of a person, one can find an answer concerning that the soul can see its reflection and become frightened, because there is an opinion that many simply do not understand that they have already died.
- And the latest version, why shut the mirrors, when the house is dead, interpreted in relation to living people. It is believed that the soul of the deceased can be seen in the mirror, and this is a very bad omen.
Supposedly it promises a quick death.
In any case, people tend to be safe and do not play jokes with death, even if they do not believe in it. On the other hand, this ritual also has a rational grain, after all the mirror is created for self-admiration, caring for its appearance, and during the preparation for funerals and immediately after them it becomes not up to itself: it is time for hassle and prayers and even somehow embarrassing and It is inconvenient in this period to make perfect and take care of your beauty. Therefore, the mirrors are suspended? In order not to embarrass loved ones and allow them to adequately follow a departed person in the last way.