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The Luck of the Horseshoe comes from the blacksmith.

Legend has it that the Devil was walking through the countryside when he came upon a smithy. The smith had just finished shoeing a horse, and the Devil was overcome with jealousy as the horse was led back to the farmstead, skipping for joy with his new iron shoes.

Consumed with greed and envy, the Devil appeared in the smithy in a cloud of sulfurous smoke, and demanded that the smith give his hooves a pair of iron shoes. The blacksmith recognized Satan, and unphased by his sudden, smoky appearance, proceeded to shoe the Devil's hooves with shoes two sizes too small!

And did those shoes ever pinch and chafe and bite! The Devil screamed in pain and tried to remove the shoes, but the clever blacksmith had securely fixed the iron shoes to the Devil's hooves. In agony, ol' Lucifer demanded that the smith remove the torturous implements. The smith agreed, so long as the Devil would never enter a place with a horseshoe nailed above the door. The instant the shoes were removed, the Devil howled and in a flash of red flame, returned to hell. Soon after, the smith nailed one of the shoes to the lintel of the smithy, and the rest is history.

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