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- The stories behind why these items are cursed vary, but they usually are said to bring bad luck or to manifest unusual phenomena related to their presence.
- A numerologist suggested him to change his name multiple times because it may bring bad luck to him.
- Legend holds that one is not supposed to put "non" upside down because this will bring bad luck.
- Also, it is thought to bring bad luck to fishermen if caught and kept.
- First Lady Mary Lincoln felt such talk could bring bad luck.
- In Ireland and Great Britain, magpies are traditionally thought to bring bad luck. Many people repeated various rhymes or salutations to placate them.
- He is nicknamed "Hairy Star", which suggests he could inflict terror like a comet, which in Chinese mythology is believed to bring bad luck if spotted shooting through the sky.
- of apparently ancient people whose true history have been obscured by the mists of time and only snippets of which have survived to this day in tales and legends among the local folk who continue to zealously preserve as well as guard and protect them from the curious and from the occasional vandal/looter, believing that allowing such remains and artifacts to be disturbed or taken away will bring bad luck or misfortune to the nearby local inhabitants.
- In January 2018, it was reported that black cars had been impounded for weeks in Ashgabat, a result of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov's conviction that black cars bring bad luck.
- the thing to the coming of the blessed man, saying that 'It was revealed unto us by Marnas that the feet of Porphyrius bring bad luck to the city'."
- For example, some children in parts of the Congo and Uganda are made to leave their families on suspicion of being witches who bring bad luck.
- Indigenous tribes leave the Philippine tarsiers in the wild because they fear that these animals could bring bad luck.
- This tradition was reversed at sea where 18th century pirates came to believe that a black cat would bring bad luck if it walks towards someone, and good luck if it walks away from someone.
- They refrain from all household activities on the festival days in the belief that acting otherwise might bring bad luck to their family.
- Assuming that parents dying in the night will bring bad luck, Baoqiang and Baohuang overrule Baohui and urge him to bring their mother's remains to a temple.
- In Estonia and Latvia, it is widely believed that whistling indoors may bring bad luck and therefore set the house on fire.
- When he was driven from Norway into exile in Iceland, he erected a nithing pole ("níðstang") to frighten the Norwegian land wights and thus bring bad luck to Norway as revenge for the Norwegian king's treatment of him.
- Originally intended to be named "Ladoga" after Lake Ladoga in Russia, the letters "d" and "g" were accidentally swapped and, due to superstition that correcting the name would bring bad luck, she remained the "Lagoda".
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