In India, pregnant women are sent indoors to avoid the shadow that could cause bad luck to those that are underneath it.
Removing black sand or lava rocks is thought to cause bad luck under what is known locally as "Pele's curse".
Harrison's first novel, Wolf (1971; film 1994), concerns the efforts of a disaffected man to view a wolf in the wilderness, an experience that he believes will cause his luck to change.
And rather than making it harder to garner support for a Pluto mission, as some researchers fear, the questioning of Pluto's status seems, if anything, to have advanced their cause.With luck, as astronomers learn more about dark and distant TNOs, the question of how to classify Pluto will become less controversial.
According to superstition, opening an umbrella indoors will cause bad luck to "rain down" on you.
The BBC Wales football commentator Rob Phillips had put his T-shirt on inside out and was not turning it the right way round in case (not sure why) that caused bad luck.
The people of Igloolik suffer under a shamanic curse that causes bad luck and dissension in their midst.
Higher ranked people had more divine generals at their command, which could be used to fight demons that caused bad luck or disease.
Mr. Macy plays Bernie Lootz, a man so thoroughly unlucky that he is the cause of bad luck in others.
Seismologists haven't forgotten the quake, however, and have been trying for years to determine its cause, with little luck.
