The metaphor water is broken mirror suggest that

How about you do your homework, Df? people have already asked this question so many times, but just read it. just READ

Mirror is a metaphor for water since the first people used a pool of water to see their own reflection. It was believed that one's image in the water was a person's actual soul. Thus, breaking a mirror would terminate its powers. Thus the soul would separate from the body and misfortune would come to the one whose last image the reflection, water or the mirror held.

Pardon me. to answer questions like this, we would have needed more information. for starters, two sentences from the excerpt that came with the question.

Hydrophobia (fear of or aversion to water).