This book failed to prove that Friday the 13th and broken mirrors aren't unlucky.  We remain unconvinced that old superstitions are useless.  From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.

Our luck star after a defeat.  From the Record of the Class of 1891 of the University of Pennsylvania.  See Divination by Punctuation.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From Les Hommes du Jour, 1913. 

There's a rabbit's foot in Southwestern's 1909 yearbook because all such tomes are occult objects.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

"There shone within the recess of the wardrobe, written in letters of fire, three words -- 'Thou shalt win!'"  From The Strand, 1908.

This is the money toad.  Reblog if you prefer money to warts.  From Nebelspalter, 1878.

A four-leaf clover, before getting gored.  From Judge's Library, 1896.

May April 23 be your lucky day.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1934.

I found a pressed 6-leaf clover hiding in an expensive rare book.  A few years ago, I purchased, for an exorbitant $128, what was promised (original typo: primrosed) to be the most unusual travel account ever published -- the surrealist painter Ithell Colquhoun's exploration of the eerie magic of the Irish countryside, The Crying of the Wind.  (It hadn't yet been republished in softcover; I was a year too early!)  I'd been sufficiently impressed by Colquhoun's dreamy occult novel Goose of Hermogenes to trust that the travel book would beguile me.  It did!  And though I can't help but wonder why the Universe tricked me into spending $128 just before the softcover came out, I do know that a new softcover wouldn't have had a pressed 6-leaf clover, so perhaps it all somehow works out in the end.

"Luck versus brains in our better-known games," from The Sketch, 1911.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.

From Die Bühne, 1925.

We have an aunt who won't stoop for a lucky penny.  Perhaps this is why.  From Kladderadatsch, 1931.  

"The disaster-dodger: mascots for motor-cars.  Luck-bringers for the superstitious motorist."  From The Sketch, 1908.

May your wish come true when you reblog this.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.

Seeing the number 7 stuck to Lady Barbarity, we wondered about the "barbarity of luck."  That phrase is a Googlewhack!

"Japanese talisman brings good luck."  From Popular Mechanics, 1914.