From the film Constantine as the woman walks through the door she notices Symbols carved in to the door frame. These were to ward off demons.
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The doorways and windows of buildings were felt to be particularly vulnerable to evil. On churches and castles, gargoyles or other grotesque faces and figures such as Sheela na Gigs and Hunky Punks would be carved to frighten away witches and other malign influences.
Similarly the grotesque faces carved on Pumpkin lanterns (and their earlier counterparts, made from turnips, swedes or beets) at Halloween are meant to avert evil
Mirrors and other shiny objects were believed to deflect the evil eye
Symbols such as crucifixes, silver bullets, wild roses and garlic were believed to ward off or destroy vampires.
Cast-off horseshoes are often nailed up over, or close by, doorways, normally with the ends pointing upwards (said "to collect good luck" or "to stop the luck falling out"; but see Oakham's horseshoes). Model horseshoes (of card or plastic) are given as good-luck tokens, particularly at weddings, and small paper horseshoes feature in confetti.
White heather is often sold by Irish travelling people and Roma "to bring good luck". (Frequently this turns out to be not heather but white sea-lavender, a species of Limonium.)
In Ireland, rush St Brigid's crosses were kept indoors (in houses and animal houses) to keep away illness for the year.
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What do you have that you believe bring you luck or protection?
In my house we have been having a lot of bad luck since we moved in. Water leaking, cracks, car got robbed, electricity playing up etc etc
I'm not going to say these things could of happened if I didn't have a lucky charm but it helps to think that just maybe a little charm of luck could have made things less stressful.
Then I found this...
I only noticed about 2 weeks ago that we have a horse shoe outside our front door. I noticed that it was pointing downwards.
I was superstitious that apparently if its pointing down its bad luck. So I turned it up the right way. Since then I believe there has hardly been any bad luck.