A stroke of luck

[bainbridge]

I was sitting in the sun by a lake with my partner when I spied something below the surface, buried in the lakebed with a bit sticking out. I fished it out and, lo and behold, it was a horseshoe.

My partner assures me that this is a lucky horseshoe, and did some research. Apparently some people say it needs to be hung above a doorway. Some people say it needs to be hung facing upwards like a "U", to collect the luck that the horseshoe attracts. Other people say that it needs to be hung the other way round, like a rainbow, to allow the luck to flow out and into the people around it.

It's very rusty, I washed it with a brush in a bucket of soapy water to get the mud and big bits of rust off, but if I paint over it to make it less if an eyesore when it gets hung up somewhere, surely this will block the luck contained within from coming out?

Please can the hive mind of GD kindly offer some advice on placement, orientation and finish?

Many thanks

 

[robfosters]

Looks like my morning dump

 

[sidimmu]

Looks like my morning dump

Speak to your doctor.

OP, best of luck with the lucky shoe! I'm no good at decorating and creativity, so cant help there.

 

[dlockers]

We have (I think still have?) a horse shoe on our gate. You are right, it should be hung in a "U" to catch the good luck.

 

[Werewolf]

The more important bit isn't that it collect/catches good luck, it's that it's iron and the fae can't stand it, so putting it over the door stops them coming in to steal your baby and leave a changeling in it's place.

 

[Diddums]

 

[dlockers]

The more important bit isn't that it collect/catches good luck, it's that it's iron and the fae can't stand it, so putting it over the door stops them coming in to steal your baby and leave a changeling in it's place.

I can see why they dumbed it down for folk like me.

 

[drakulton]

That's a hoofing chunk of metal right there.

 

[Diddums]

That's a hoofing chunk of metal right there.

Quit this horseplay immediately

 

[dlockers]

Oh here we go with the usual idiots having a mare with horse jokes

 

[JonRGV250]

Rein it in guys, it's not funny.

*bans self

 

[Derek W]

Oh here we go with the usual idiots having a mare with horse jokes

Neigh danger that I'm joining in with that at least.

 

[darael]

Whoa there! If that falls on you, you could end up in horsepital.

 

[Quartz]

Please can the hive mind of GD kindly offer some advice on placement, orientation and finish?

Clean it up (wire brush etc), paint it, and hang it with the points up.

Oh here we go with the usual idiots having a mare with horse jokes

Multiple, even, on the trot.

 

[cainer]

You're meant to hang it as a U but tilted slightly to one side.. or the devil swings in it

 

[Mr.Cookie]

Can you all stop foaling around!

 

[wonko]

Definitely pointing upwards in a U shape. That's how we had ours until the house burnt down.

 

[Mysterae_]

It's all a myth, after all it wasn't very lucky for the horse that lost it in the first place.

In other news, I'm selling some fairy dust if you're interested .

 

[Spannerhead]

Will the neeeeighbours like it?

just wondering, if we give you the wrong advise and its hung up the wrong way...and your house does indeed burn down, would the people of OCUK get done for manslaughter for wrong info?

 

[Mysterae_]

Will the neeeeighbours like it?

just wondering, if we give you the wrong advise and its hung up the wrong way...and your house does indeed burn down, would the people of OCUK get done for manslaughter for wrong info?

Probably be accused of complicit in Redrum.