Horse Shoes for Luck

[annanicole18]

My husband and I recently went to Metamora, IN. While there we discovered that they sell the horseshoes from the horses that pull their canal boat. We purchased one and it is delightfully massive!!! I am around horses constantly but love the big drafts. We want to hang it above our front door but cannot find anything consistent about how it is supposed to be hung. So I came to BYC to see what everyone on here thinks. Ends pointing up to hold in the luck or pointing down to diminish bad luck coming through the door?

 

[ranchhand]

Hopefully, it's the ends pointing up, so the luck won't run out! Because that's how they are here, over every door to the house and shop/garage.

I like the big ones too, but most of mine are from steeplechasers and polo ponies.

 

[1_FnkyFrm]

Up to hold the luck......

 

[Sunny Side Up]

Whichever way you decide to hang it, just be sure that it is held securely. It would be bad luck for it to fall down on someone's head as they went through the doorway!

 

[Smoky73]

up holds the luck, we have two over the doors of our main chicken coop that the birds use to go into the run.

 

[redhen]

Quote:
Dang!! No wonder why i ALWAYS have such bad luck!!

**going outside to turn my horse shoe UP!!**

 

[canada-goose]

I always heard that the ends should point up. It must have worked, we never had especially bad luck in our old house.

 

[Blackbird]

Quote:
Dang!! No wonder why i ALWAYS have such bad luck!!

**going outside to turn my horse shoe UP!!**

YOU AND ME BOTH! UGH!

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

Quote:
Dang!! No wonder why i ALWAYS have such bad luck!!

**going outside to turn my horse shoe UP!!**

OOPS!

 

[annanicole18]

Ok that big boy is going up tomorrow. Can't ask hubby to do too much in one day seeing that the upgraded our aquarium from a 10 to 20 gallon today! Glad that some people know which way is the right way the internet wanted to tell me either way....