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Charles (Chuck) Bryant

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Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

And her beautiful little cute daughter was able to go on to a lot of these shows, which is always fun.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

Yeah, little girl on tour.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

What can be more fun than that?

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

Indigo girls aren't doing all those nasty drugs in front of that girl.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

No, not one TV was thrown over a balcony.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

Where were we?

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

That's right.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

That led to the idea that gods might observe their souls through these shiny reflective devices.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

So that means it has imports.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

So to damage something like that, something like that to be broken,

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

Would at first they thought of it as like just disrespectful.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

And then they said, but also maybe it would anger the gods and they would rain bad luck down upon their heads.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

And the whole seven years thing came about apparently because the Romans believed that life changes happen in seven year cycles.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

So that's where that idea comes from.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

Or another explanation that I'm not sure about this one, but apparently mirrors, you know, they were pretty expensive early on.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

And the cost of a mirror would equal seven years work from a servant.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

Yeah, they could maybe both are accurate.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors

That's right.