PREVENTING NIGHTMARES
Another legend involves a blacksmith and his dealings with the devil, and it offers one more explanation for the tradition of wearing horseshoe jewellery to ward off bad luck and prevent nightmares. As the story goes, the devil asked the blacksmith to attach horseshoes to his hooves. The blacksmith did as he was told, leaving the devil in excruciating pain. As a result, the devil begged the blacksmith to remove the horseshoes from his feet. The clever blacksmith again did as he was asked, but only after making the devil promise never to enter a home where a horseshoe hung.