Mirrors in Folklore: Trapped Souls, Threshold Magic & Why Every Culture Feared the Glass

Описание: 🖤 Get your FREE dark sapphic gothic short story — https://dl.bookfunnel.com/qvbiql94gf
📖 Her Daffodil Queen — https://books2read.com/herdaffodilqueen
📖 Cursed Cove — https://www.amazon.com/Cursed-Cove-Ke...
📚 pre-order Mist and Memory- gothic ghost romance: https://books2read.com/Mist-and-Memory

Mirrors have unsettled us for thousands of years — and it wasn't vanity. Across ancient Greece, Slavic funeral traditions, Japanese sacred objects, and the Bloody Mary ritual, cultures worldwide believed mirrors could trap souls, open thresholds, and hold things that refused to leave.
In this episode of Folklore Friday, we explore:
— The Greek eidolon and why Narcissus was actually a horror story
— Why Romans believed breaking a mirror broke your soul (and where seven years bad luck really comes from)
— The Slavic tradition of covering mirrors when someone dies — and what they were afraid of
— Catoptromancy, mirror divination, and the ritual structure behind Bloody Mary
— The Yata no Kagami — Japan's sacred mirror that doesn't reflect. It contains.
🖤 Subscribe for new folklore every Friday

SOURCES
Catoptromancy — Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature, Garland 1998
Slavic mirror customs — Afanasyev's collected Russian folklore
Yata no Kagami — Nihon Shoki, Chronicles of Japan 720 CE
Narcissus/eidolon — Ovid, Metamorphoses Book III

FIND ME HERE
📸 Instagram —   / heather.salterpurves_author  
👥 Facebook —   / heathersalterpurvesauthor  
🐦 Twitter —   / heather_purves  
📚 Storygraph — https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile...
📚 Bookbub — https://www.bookbub.com/profile/heath...
☕ Ko-fi — https://ko-fi.com/heathersalter_purves

TOOLS I USE
✍️ ProWritingAid — https://prowritingaid.com/en/Account/...
💰 Honey (save money online) — https://joinhoney.com/ref/bqomkmu
🎨 Fiverr — http://www.fiverr.com/s2/72a7263df0
📺 TubeBuddy — https://www.tubebuddy.com/pricing?a=h...
Affiliate links above — I may earn a small commission at no cost to you

#darkfantasy #sapphicfantasy #folkloreauthor #mirrorsuperstition #mythologyexplained #indieauthor #authortube #queerauthor