The mysterious McFerguson, however, did not bring about the sudden change in luck which marked White's astonishing rise on the poker table in March.
One practice which uses the power of light to protect you from bad luck and attract good luck in its place is to light three candles - two of them must be white, one for protection and one for cleansing, and the other one must be orange, to bring about a change in luck.
(The non-philosophers have to be so fortunate that they do not even recognize any risk to their good fortune. Otherwise, they would fear a change in their luck).
In ground that was baked dry but is now soaked deep, eggs will hatch, seeds will germinate and hidden species will reveal themselves and make the most of this change in their luck before the next drought sets in.
Copley, the foremost American painter of the colonial period, "must have been enormously impressed," he writes, "with the victim's telling of a teenager's survival from ferocious trauma, the triumph over primal terror, overcoming the disability, and finally the miraculous changes in his luck".
"I still believe that the mildest and most obscure of Americans can be rescued from oblivion by good luck, sudden changes in fortune, sudden encounters with heroes," he concluded.
But golf is the ultimate mind game, and though Scott, the talented 32-year-old Australian, has tried to alter the equation in the last two seasons by changing his putter and his caddie, he could not change his luck in the tournaments that still define golfers.
But golf is perhaps the ultimate mind game, and though Scott, the talented 32-year-old Australian, has tried to alter the equation in the last two seasons by changing his putter and his caddie, he could not change his luck in the tournaments that still define golfers.
Wenger said that he was hoping for a change of luck in the second phase of the Champions League, after Arsenal had suffered nightmare draws at the last 16 in the previous four seasons.
I have also seen my own luck change in a hurry.
He was willing, however, to find portents in his change of luck, especially after he learned that Gordon had won the title.
