The Mirror Man

Written By FlippyCreep

You ever wondered why breaking a mirror was bad luck? Boy, have I got a story for you then.

Back in 1878 a Japanese man by the name of Hiroshi Mai made his living by creating and selling glass and mirrors. He was very good at his job and raked in heaps of Yen every single week and he easily had enough money to make his families home extravagant.

The other families in town were extremely jealous of his success and cringed every time their eyes laid sight on him or his family. In one of those families, was a sorcerer, by the name of Zen Yao. He insisted that one of the family members could buy one of his mirrors with tainted Yen that caused any mirror he laid eyes on to develop a fourth dimension.

With hesitation, the families agreed to follow through with Zens plan. During the winter, a young male in his 20's goes into the store and purchases a small hand mirror with the tainted Yen. Hiroshi noticed that the buyer looked extremely nervous and shaky. When asked if everything was okay, he smiled while nodding his still shaking head. Once the buyer headed out, Hiroshi decided to close the store and prepare for the winter storms.

While huddled up with his family, Hiroshi decided to inspect his mirrors, just to make sure none of them had smashed on the ground. When he entered the mirror room, he was hit over the head with the Butt Cap of a guards Katana and then held by a very strong masked man. Zen ordered his henchmen to wake Hiroshi from his unconscious slumber. One of the masked guard started pummelling into Hiroshi's kidneys with brute force. Once Hiroshi regained consciousness, he started question why he was being held hostage in his own home.

Before he could finish his sentence, he noticed that he had been gagged so that no one could hear what he was saying. He tried his hardest to scream to his family but his screams were futile and his words only sounded like a muffled toddler. Zen preceded to grab Hiroshi's largest mirror and place it in front of him. Hiroshi looked at the mirror and started to feel light headed, then he started to notice that his arms were waving around uncontrollably.

At first, it was a slight annoyance, but it quickly changed when the muscles and bones in Hiroshi's arms started to tear and shatter. Cries of extreme agony started escaping from Hiroshi's mouth and all Zen did was laugh hysterically. Hiroshi started noticing that his legs and torso started shaking violently just like his arms were. When his legs began to shatter, it was extremely hard for Hiroshi to stay conscious but with the sound of snapping bones and the sound of hail against roof tiles, he managed to stay conscious throughout the terrifying ordeal.

All of the bones below Hiroshi's neck were shattered, all of his muscles were shredded, yet Zen's magic kept Hiroshi alive so he could feel the pain of the whole ordeal. Zen approached Hiroshi while bearing and evil grin and whispered the phrase "This is your doing" and then, without hesitation, he shattered the mirror. After the mirror became shattered, Hiroshi started the feel dizzy. Then, uncontrollably, his neck started slowly moving counter clockwise. When his neck had turned 90 degrees, the bones in his neck started to snap. With every bone that would snap, Hiroshi would feel a pain unlike anything he had ever experienced in his lifetime. After 4 snaps, his screaming stopped...

He died from lack of oxygen getting to hid lungs...

But after his death, you could still hear a distinct...

Snap Snap Snap...

So, ever since then, if you broke a mirror you would contract "The mirror mans curse." A curse that would last seven years but would only cause harm to you if you were to break another mirror in that time span. Legend has it, that if you were to break a second mirror, Hiroshi would trap your soul inside the mirror and cause you to suffer the same fate he suffered for all eternity.

So next time you break a mirror, I suggest not going near another one for at least seven years.