lucky horseshoe
Equine good-luck charm
A horseshoe kept or displayed for good luck, based on the folk belief that horseshoes ward off evil or attract fortune.
Traditionally hung above doorways with the open end pointing upward to "hold" the luck: She nailed a lucky horseshoe over the barn door.
The superstition may trace to iron's supposed power against malevolent spirits.
- charmAttractive personal quality
- talismanMagical protective charm
- ironElement twenty-six
- farrierOne who shoes horses
- cloverThree-leafed legume plant
superstition · old wives tale · doorway · front door · nail · wrought iron · blacksmith · fortune · amulet · four leaf clover · barn · stable · good fortune · rustic · hang · protection · metal · crescent
- lucky charmsrabbit foot, four leaf clover, shamrock, four-leaf clover, amulet
- horseshoesringers, leaners
- superstitionssuperstition, superstitions, hexes, black cats, broken mirror
- Hungarian folklorewhite stag, water spirit, forest spirit, house spirit, evil eye
- horsesmare, mares, stallion, stallions, colt
lucky horseshoecursed object
Item bearing supernatural malice
bad omen · broken mirror · jinx · hex · evil eye
lucky horseshoemonkey's paw
Magical wishing object
death's head · inverted cross · Hope Diamond · albatross · mark of Cain
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