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A good luck charm is an amulet or other item that is believed to bring good luck. Almost any object can be used as a charm. Coins, horseshoes and buttons are examples, as are small objects given as gifts, due to the favorable associations they make. Many souvenir shops have a range of tiny items that may be used as good luck charms.
It is a symbol of good luck, as the name is a pun meaning "golden poo" and "good luck" in Japanese. [1] By 2006, 2.7 million mobile phone charms in this form had been sold. [2] [3] The symbol, or something similar to it called unchi, appears as an emoji available on many mobile devices that support a Unicode expansion made in the summer of 2014 ...
Girls' love, an anime and manga jargon term for lesbian fiction; Golden Lovers, a Japanese professional wrestling team; Good Luck!!, a 2003 television drama Green Lantern, any of a number of similarly themed DC Comics characters
Number 88 symbolizes fortune and good luck in Chinese culture, since the word 8 sounds similar to the word fā (發, which implies 發財, or wealth, in Mandarin or Cantonese). The number 8 is considered to be the luckiest number in Chinese culture, and prices in Chinese supermarkets often contain many 8s.
The African-American cook had a mojo bag with a "lizard's tail, rabbit's foot, a fish eye, snake skins, a beetle, and a dime with a hole in it." This mojo bag was worn by the cook for good-luck. [55] Other conjure bundles in the hoodoo tradition are hanged on the side of the door or beds where people sleep to protect from conjure. [56]
SPECIAL is an acronym statistics system developed specifically for the Fallout series, representing the seven attributes used to define Fallout characters: Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility and Luck. SPECIAL is heavily based on GURPS, [12] which was originally intended to be the character system used in the game.
No matter who President Donald Trump’s secretary of Defense ends up being, that person will be charged with disrupting the Pentagon to reform it and annihilating any vestiges of diversity equity ...
In Japanese mythology, the Seven Lucky Gods or Seven Gods of Fortune (七福神, Shichifukujin in Japanese) are believed to grant good luck and are often represented in netsuke and in artworks. One of the seven (Jurōjin) is said to be based on a historical figure.