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Lucky Charms is a brand of breakfast cereal produced by General Mills since 1964. [1] The cereal consists of multi-colored marshmallows and pieces of shaped pulverized oat , each resembling one of several objects or symbols associated with good luck .
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.
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A nazar, an amulet to ward off the evil eye. An amulet, also known as a good luck charm or phylactery, is an object believed to confer protection upon its possessor. The word "amulet" comes from the Latin word amuletum, which Pliny's Natural History describes as "an object that protects a person from trouble".
In this view, the epithet "lucky" or "unlucky" is a descriptive label that refers to an event's positivity, negativity, or improbability. Supernatural interpretations of luck consider it to be an attribute of a person or object, or the result of a favorable or unfavorable view of a deity upon a person.
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. [4] The charm is unusual outside of Japan but has been available from the English-language website ...
Rabbit's feet were also considered lucky because of their association with the dead body of a criminal. According to Newbell Niles Puckett, a 20th-century folklorist, “the more wicked the person who is dead, the more effective the charm associated with his remains."
In the last century, there was a thriving cottage industry in Joan the Wad lucky charms. [1] People carried small figures of Joan the Wad for good luck: a small collection of such antique figures is housed at the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle. [6] Her image also appears on door knockers to serve as a protective spirit. [1]