From The Cat in History, Legend and Art by Anne Marks, 1909.

From Starting Points in Language Skills B by Moore & Kleitsch, 1976.

Q: "Can the man forced into the ditch truthfully say that the black cat brought him bad luck?"

A: No, but the black cat served as harbinger of the man's accursed neighbor who shouldn't be allowed to drive.

From Thinking and Writing Clearly by Stratton, Blossom & Lanphear and illustrated by Corinne Malvern, 1943.

"If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all. Gloom, despair, and agony on me" (Robert Blake a.k.a. Dr. Bob).  Photo from Life Science by Benedict, Knox & Stone, 1941.

"A pleasure to wear—day or night."  A lucky rabbit's foot from the Lucky Heart Curio Catalog, undated.

"Would whistle on way by grave yard.  Then all will be well.  'If we can whistle as we pass the grave yard, we are going to be all right.'"  From the Duluth Herald, 1914.

Fear of the number seven.  From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.  See Strange Talismans for Strange Times.

"It pays to keep quiet if you are superstitious."  From The New Carolina Magazine, 1921.  See Strange Talismans for Strange Times.

"The stars all have their own pet hoodoo-busters."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1957.

From Black Cats & Four-Leaf Clovers by Harry Oliver.

"Superstitions: manifestions of darkness."  From The Instructor, 1963.

"Animals, superstitions, and toothaches."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1947.

From Fort Wayne Works News, 1949.

From Collier's, 1915.  See Strange Talismans for Strange Times.

From Purple Parrot, 1939.

From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.

From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1957.

From Coraddi, 1990.

When someone sneezes and the Evil-spirit turns a new leaf in the sneezer's book of life, express your desire that it be a happy one and never forget to say, "To your wishes."  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.

From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1957.