Do you have the luck of the Irish? Or are you as ill-fated as someone who broke a mirror while walking under a ladder as black cat crossed his path?
Whatever your fortune, everyone could use a little more luck. The idea of superstitions and lucky charms has been around for ages. In fact, the concept of wearing jewelry has its origins in good-luck charms! You probably know that it’s good luck to find a penny (heads-side up, of course, and extra points if it’s from the year you were born) and bad luck to step on a crack in the sidewalk (please, spare your mother’s back!). But did you know that pulling your pocket inside out will reverse bad luck? And that lighting a pink candle will make you lucky in love?
Check out these lesser-known luck-related tidbits from The Good Luck Book, and who knows—you might get lucky!
- Seeing three butterflies fluttering together is a good omen.
- If your shoes squeak, that’s good luck. If you kick off your shoes and they land on their soles, that’s also good luck.
- If you get up on the left (wrong) side of the bed, put your right sock and shoe on first to ward off bad luck.
- According to old English tradition, it’s good luck to find a peapod with only one pea inside.
- The Pennsylvania Dutch say it’s good luck to kiss in the middle of a covered bridge, and also to burn your baby’s first diaper. (No word on whether one leads to the other.)
- You’ll be lucky if you put on an article of clothing wrong-side out. But you have to do this accidentally, and once you have, you must wear it that way all day.
And perhaps most important of all:
“When you have good luck in anything, you ought to be glad. Indeed, if you are not glad, you are not really lucky.”
—Henry Van Dyke, Fisherman’s Luck
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—Avery, who in sixth grade worshiped at the altar of a lucky plastic pig. She can’t explain it.
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