2162. If you sit with your shadow thrown on the water, you will not catch fish...............Mountains

2163. If a portrait hangs on the wall crooked, there will be bad luck..................Louisville Negroes

2164. If you turn a picture of a friend of yours upside down, he will have a headache. .Louisville Negroes

2165. If you hang your sweetheart's photograph upside down, he will die soon.......Blue Grass Negroes

2166. If a portrait falls, there will be bad luck.

2167. It a portrait falls from the wall, someone in the family will die...............Louisville Negroes

2168. The falling of anyone's picture means death in the household. When the death occurs, the clock stops until after the funeral.

2169. If a large family portrait falls, there will be a death..................................Blue Grass

2170. If a portrait falls, you will have a quarrel with the original.

2171. If a portrait falls in a room where someone is dead, the original will die.

2172. If a portrait falls in a room where someone is dead, the original will die within three years.

2173. To have a picture drop out of a frame is a bad omen......................Southern Kentucky

2174. It is a bad luck sign to hear knocking behind a picture ..............................Blue Grass

2175. If the glass on a picture breaks of its own accord, a death will occur in your family.....Mountains

2176. If your photograph is buried by an enemy, your life will fade as the photograph fades.

2177. If you draw a picture of your enemy and shoot it with a silver bullet, he will suffer pain where the bullet strikes.

2178. Bury the picture of your enemy face down in the direction that Jesus Christ was buried, that is, with head toward the west. As the picture fades, your enemy's life will fade................Mountains

2179. If you break your mirror, you will have seven years of trouble.

2180. Avert the penalty attached to breaking a mirror by throwing all the pieces into running water.

2181. If you break a mirror, the number of pieces will indicate the number of years of bad luck that you will have....................Louisville Negroes

2182. It brings bad luck for two people to look into a mirror at the same time..............Blue Grass

2183. If two people look into a mirror at the same time, they will both be disappointed before the day is gone.......................Southern Kentucky

2184. If two persons look into a mirror at the same time, one will soon die......................Negroes

2185. It brings bad luck to look into a mirror while you are putting on your night gown.

2186. To look into a mirror at night brings bad luck.............................................Mountains

2187. If you look into a mirror after dark, you will see the Devil...........................Mountains

2188. If you see your image double in the mirror, your death will follow..............Central Kentucky

2189. To see one's shadow while one is looking into a mirror is a sign of death.................Mountains

2190. It brings bad luck to look into a mirror when one is ill................................Blue Grass

2191. If while lying in bed you see yourself in a mirror, you may expect bad luck or death.

2192. To look into a mirror over anyone else's shoulder leads to disappointment.............Blue Grass

2193. If you see a dead man's face in a mirror, you will be the next one to die.

2194. If a mirror hangs in a room where a death occurs, turn it to the wall or cover it, as the first person that sees himself in it will be the next one to die.

2195. If you look into a mirror while you are drinking, you will never be married...........Blue Grass