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  • A rabbit's foot, in most English-speaking countries, is considered a sign of good luck when carried on or near the body.Superstition Bash ...
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  • As is the case with any good luck charm or amulet, if the bearer believes ... powers, either to hex (wish someone bad luck) or bring about good fortune ...
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  • which is any object intended to bring good luck or protection to its owner. ... In Asia, figures of elephants are said to attract good luck and money ...
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  • is to insulate moral appraisal from moral luck. Moral luck is a term introduced ... *Nagel, T. 1976. Moral Luck. in Mortal Questions. Cambridge: Cambridge ...
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  • they are considered a sign of good luck, whose killing brings bad ... on one's body, to be a sign of good luck to come, and that killing ...
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  • been used to indicate pure love and good luck; while striped carnations ... the carnation symbolizes misfortune and bad luck. In ancient Rome, carnations ...
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  • footing" and the eating of "good-luck" foods. ... Most cultures have their own traditions of good-luck foods, meant ...
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  • of a natural disaster, and brick good-luck pavilions were sometimes built to ward off bad luck from surrounding villages. According to ancient ...
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  • longer fictional works, Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. Later, through ... Sharp in Vanity Fair, Barry Lyndon in The Luck of Barry Lyndon, and the eponymous ...
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  • every one to whom these were exhibited, and bad luck was thought to menace the household not visited by the doll-bearers before Christmas Eve at the latest. ...
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  • Gwalior in a military campaign, but Ibrahim's luck ran out against Rana Sangha, the ruler of Mewar, who defeated his armies twice and drove him ...
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  • trance-state mutterings of shamans.Georg Luck, Arcana Mundi: Magic and the ... *Luck, Georg. Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and ...
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  • themselves and their homes to receive good luck. Celebrating Chinese New Year’s ... believed the cleaning sweeps away the bad luck of the preceding year and ...
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  • Crickets are popular pets and are considered good luck in Asia, especially ... Cri-kee is carried in a cage as a symbol of luck, as in many Asian countries. ...
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  • fictional town of Freedom, Kansas. In Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (Atlantic-Little ... memoir, is a little more extended than Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff and though there ...
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  • * Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck (1972) * South of No North (1973) ... * Luck (1987) * Barfly (film) (1987) * Beauti-Ful (1988) ...
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  • Sun of the Desert. "Your Excellency Lady Luck" (Ваше благородие, госпожа Удача, music: Isaak Schwarz, lyrics: ...
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  • ” blessings, and was applied for luck as well as joy and beauty ... ” blessings, and was applied for luck as well as joy and beauty ...
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  • | "Bad Luck Blues" |- |} ===1927 Blues singles=== ... | "Change My Luck Blues" |- | 1928 | "Prison Cell Blues" ...
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  • carved in jade, as ornaments to be worn or good-luck totems. People that wore the jewelry of the Feng-huang were regarded as being highly moral, and ...
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