Luck on bright side..
★ A NEW book that promises how to boost your luck is out tomorrow, as we revealed yesterday that one in five Brits reckon they’re unlucky.
★ Lucky Girl: Unveiling The Secrets Of Manifesting A Lucky Life by Georgie May could help boost your chances of things going your way more often.
★ Here KIM CARR keeps her fingers crossed with 15 facts about luck…
1 Popular in peak US mobster days, people called coolers were hired by casinos for having bad luck in order to spread it around the tables and stop gamblers from cashing in.
2 Vikings would give cats as wedding presents as they associated them with goddess of luck Freyja. Women who loved kitties were more popular with men as they thought it would boost the success of their betrothals.
3 If you catch an Italian bloke patting his dangly bits, right, don’t be alarmed. It may be because they think it stops bad luck.
4 The phrase “the luck of the Irish” was coined in the 19th century in reference to miners who were lucky finding gems.
5 In Austria and Eastern Europe, scoffing lobster on New Year’s Eve is thought of as unlucky because the crustaceans move backwards and they want to look ahead.
6 Throwing coins into water is considered good luck in China.
7 But in 2020 another superstition where you chuck a coin at a plane engine for good luck saw a Chinese passenger on budget airline Lucky Air fined £13,100 when a handful got stuck and it couldn’t take off.
8 A sailing tradition says a woman on board is back luck unless they’re naked, so some have topless women images on their bows.
9 At the Naki Sumo festival in Japan, sumo wrestlers are encouraged to make children cry for good luck by lifting them into the air while they screech their heads off.
10 Singer Katy Perry’s Christian mum Mary banned cereal Lucky Charms, far left, from their household when she was a child because she associated it with the Devil.
11 Model Heidi Klum carries a bag of her children’s baby teeth with her for good luck.
12 Actress Jennifer Aniston steps on to a plane first with her right foot then taps the outside of the plane for good luck.
13 In Denmark people sometimes throw broken plates at their friends’ houses to bring them good luck for a new year.
14 Peaky seagull plopped on your car? Russians believe it’s a good luck sign for money incoming.
15 Males in Thailand wear penises made from bone or wood in their pants for good luck called “palad khik”.