Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — The Horseshoe Superstition. [ARTICLE]

The Horseshoe Superstition.

The horseshoe superstition is ver. old. The ancients believed that Iron, as a metal, had unknown powers, an would drive nails in their walls to keep off pestiienee. It has always bet? thought uncommonly lucky to findpiece of the metal, and, as horsesho were the orm in which It was most fre quently found, the superstitious regar came to be transferred from tfye material to the shape.