00:00Every single civilization in history, across every continent, independently decided that
00:06mirrors were dangerous.
00:07They never spoke to each other.
00:09They all reached the same conclusion.
00:11Ancient Greeks covered mirrors when someone died in the house, so the soul wouldn't get
00:16trapped inside.
00:18Romans believed mirrors held a fragment of your living soul.
00:22Break one, lose seven years of life.
00:24Ancient Chinese placed mirrors facing the front door, to reflect evil back at itself.
00:31Victorian England draped mirrors in black cloth during mourning, believing the dead could reach
00:36through them.
00:37West African traditions warned against looking into mirrors at night, because darkness lets
00:42something else look back.
00:44And across dozens of unconnected cultures, one belief appeared identically.
00:50Never show a baby its own reflection.
00:52It confuses the soul.
00:54It doesn't know yet which side of the glass it belongs to.
00:58These weren't superstitions passed from one culture to another.
01:01They arose completely independently, thousands of miles apart, thousands of years apart.
01:08Which leaves one uncomfortable question.
01:11What did they all sense that we've simply learned to ignore?
01:14to the end of the night, we were able to learn to get the same day of life. To be
01:14able to live, we're absolutely not to live in control. And we've
01:14whole story, so many of the world will be able to live in control. And the world
01:14You
