Luck (English Wikipedia)

Rescher, Nicholas (2 June 2015) [2014]. "The Machinations of Luck". In Pritchard, Duncan; Whittington, Lee John (eds.). The Philosophy of Luck. John Wiley & Sons. p. 172. ISBN 9781119030577. Retrieved 24 October 2025. Luck (by definition) is a matter of eventuations due to pure chance [...].
Elliott, Andrew C. A. (28 November 2022) [2021]. What are the Chances of That?: How to Think About Uncertainty. Oxford University Press. p. https://books.google.com/books?id=s0WeEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT124. ISBN 9780198883661. Retrieved 24 October 2025. [...] perhaps attitude plays a role in how we define luck. After all, luck, whether good or bad, is a matter of how we interpret the chance occurrences of our lives.
Gunther, Max (11 August 2020) [1977]. "The Blessed and the Cursed". The Luck Factor. Harriman Classics. Petersfield (Hampshire): Harriman House Limited. p. https://books.google.com/books?id=4SjyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT20. ISBN 9780857198815. Retrieved 24 October 2025. There are dozens of definitions of this burdened little word. [...] Dictionaries are only of limited help in this quandary. Each dictionary definition can be argued with [...]. [...] I've looked for a definition that everyone can accept – one that simply states the facts and leaves the explanations and analyses behind. And so: Luck: events that influence your life and are seemingly beyond your control.
Pushpalatha Naveenkumar; Vandana Sharma; Gunapriya Devarajan; Azween Abdullah; Elngar, Ahmed A., eds. (2 September 2025). Handbook of AI-Based Mechatronics Systems and Smart Solutions in Industrial Automation. Intelligent Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. p. https://books.google.com/books?id=Q06NEQAAQBAJ&pg=PT221. ISBN 9781040408230. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
Yablon, Alys R. (24 February 2015) [2008]. Field Guide to Luck: How to Use and Interpret Charms, Signs, and Superstitions. Philadelphia: Quirk Books. ISBN 9781594748363. Archived from the original on 7 December 2025. Retrieved 7 November 2025. Hoodoo conjuring allows people to access their supernatural powers to improve their lives [...].
For example: Jordan, Michael (9 May 2025) [1993]. Encyclopedia of Gods: Over 2,500 Deities of the World. Battlebro, Vermont: Echo Point Books & Media. ISBN 9781648373015. Retrieved 7 November 2025. Ketua[:] God of fortune. Ngbandi [Zaire, central Africa]. One of seven deities invoked at daybreak. He controls both luck and ill fortune.
Menjivar, Mark (9 June 2015). The Luck Archive: Exploring Belief, Superstition, and Tradition. San Antonio, Texas: Trinity University Press. ISBN 9781595342508. Archived from the original on 26 December 2025. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
Wang, Xuehua (3 October 2023). "3.2: Superstitious Belief and Behavior". Cultural and Social Influences on Consumer Behavior: Uncertainty Avoidance, Rituals, and External Threats. Management for Professionals - ISSN 2192-8096. Singapore: Springer Nature. p. 104. doi:10.1007/978-981-99-6183-2. ISBN 9789819961832. Retrieved 21 November 2025. Superstitious beliefs are either cultural or personal that are invoked to bring good luck or fend off bad luck [...].
Dunams, Brenda (11 November 2023). The Superstition Diaries From Ancient Lore to Modern Beliefs. Mumbai: Pencil. ISBN 9789358834956. Retrieved 14 November 2025. Many European cultures have specific superstitions related to birth and death. For example, it was considered unlucky to cut a baby's hair before their first birthday [...].
"3.1.4. John Frum Village: Cultural Experience and Traditions". The city trip guide for Tanna (Vanuatu). YouGuide Ltd. p. 36. ISBN 9781837062997. Retrieved 21 November 2025. John Frum Village, located on Tanna Island, is a unique cultural destination. [...] The villagers believe that a figure named John Frum, who they see as a spirit or deity, will return to bring prosperity and goods to the island.
Lal Behari Day (1883). "The Evil Eye of Sani". Folk-tales of Bengal. London: Macmillan. p. 108. Retrieved 21 November 2025. Once upon a time Sani, or Saturn, the god of bad luck, and Lakshmi, the goddess of good luck, fell out with each other in heaven.
Rescher, N., Luck: the brilliant randomness of everyday life p. 32. "Luck accordingly involves three things: (1) a beneficiary or maleficiary, (2) a development that is benign (positive) or malign (negative) from the stand point of the interests of the affected individual, and that, moreover, (3) is fortuitous (unexpected, chancy, unforeseeable.)"
Rescher, N., Luck: the brilliant randomness of everyday life p. 28. "Luck is a matter of having something good or bad happen that lies outside the horizon of effective foreseeability."
Rescher, N., Luck: the brilliant randomness of everyday life p. 32. "Luck thus always incorporates a normative element of good or bad: someone must be affected positively or negatively by an event before its realization can properly be called lucky."
Rescher, N., Luck: the brilliant randomness of everyday life p. 32. ..."that as a far as the affected person is concerned, the outcome came about "by accident." "
Elbow Room by Daniel Clement Dennett, p. 92. "We know it would be superstitious to believe that "there actually is such a thing as luck" - something a rabbits' foot might bring - but we nevertheless think there is an unsuperstitious and unmisleading way of characterising events and properties as merely lucky."

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"A Basic Buddhism Guide: Good Luck and Fate". Buddhanet.net. Archived from the original on 2024-03-07. Retrieved 2011-05-13.

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Miller, Ed (Nov 27, 2009). "The Pitfalls of Running Good". CardPlayer.com. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2014. I've always thought that one of the worst things that can happen to new poker players is for them to run really good right out of the gate. If they rack up a number of big wins early on, a couple of bad things can happen.

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CHANCE News 4.15 Archived 2017-06-18 at the Wayback Machine ...the definition in the Oxford English dictionary: "the fortuitous happening of an event favorable or unfavorable to the interest of a person"

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Wang, Xuehua (3 October 2023). "3.2: Superstitious Belief and Behavior". Cultural and Social Influences on Consumer Behavior: Uncertainty Avoidance, Rituals, and External Threats. Management for Professionals - ISSN 2192-8096. Singapore: Springer Nature. p. 104. doi:10.1007/978-981-99-6183-2. ISBN 9789819961832. Retrieved 21 November 2025. Superstitious beliefs are either cultural or personal that are invoked to bring good luck or fend off bad luck [...].
Vyse, Stuart (2018). "Superstition, Ethics, and Transformative Consumer Research". Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. 3 (4): 582–590. doi:10.1086/698869. Retrieved 21 November 2025. [...] when establishing the price of products, Chinese marketers tend to choose prices that end with the lucky number 8 and avoid endings with the unlucky number 4. Other studies have evaluated the effects of Feng Shui on preferences for houses [...].
Stearns, James M.; Borna, Shaheen (1995-01-01). "The ethics of lottery advertising: Issues and evidence". Journal of Business Ethics. 14 (1): 43–51. doi:10.1007/BF00873735. ISSN 1573-0697. S2CID 154717674.
Dudley, Underwood (1997). Numerology or What Pythagoras Wrought. Spectrum. Vol. 19. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society. doi:10.1090/spec/019. ISBN 978-1-4704-5283-4. S2CID 243070708.
Dembski, William (2003), "The Chance of the Gaps", GOD AND DESIGN, Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis, pp. 251–274, doi:10.4324/9780203398265_chapter_14, ISBN 978-0-203-40002-9, retrieved 2021-09-05
Hamilton, Mark W. (2019). "Riddles and Revelations: Explorations into the Relationship between Wisdom and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible ed. by Mark J. Boda, Russell L. Meek, and William R. Osborne". The Catholic Biblical Quarterly. 81 (4): 753–755. doi:10.1353/cbq.2019.0191. ISSN 2163-2529. S2CID 204517104.
Giberson, Karl W. (2015). "Chance, Divine Action and the Natural Order of Things". Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 27 (1): 100–109. doi:10.5840/jis2015271/27. ISSN 0890-0132.

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Dudley, Underwood (1997). Numerology or What Pythagoras Wrought. Spectrum. Vol. 19. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society. doi:10.1090/spec/019. ISBN 978-1-4704-5283-4. S2CID 243070708.
Dembski, William (2003), "The Chance of the Gaps", GOD AND DESIGN, Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis, pp. 251–274, doi:10.4324/9780203398265_chapter_14, ISBN 978-0-203-40002-9, retrieved 2021-09-05
Hamilton, Mark W. (2019). "Riddles and Revelations: Explorations into the Relationship between Wisdom and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible ed. by Mark J. Boda, Russell L. Meek, and William R. Osborne". The Catholic Biblical Quarterly. 81 (4): 753–755. doi:10.1353/cbq.2019.0191. ISSN 2163-2529. S2CID 204517104.
Giberson, Karl W. (2015). "Chance, Divine Action and the Natural Order of Things". Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 27 (1): 100–109. doi:10.5840/jis2015271/27. ISSN 0890-0132.

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Mukundananda, Swami. "Chapter 18, Verse 15-16 – Bhagavad Gita, The Song of God – Swami Mukundananda". www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org. Retrieved 2022-01-21.

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Katzoff, Charlotte (1998). "Divine Causality and Moral Responsibility in the Story of Joseph and His Brothers". Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly / עיון: רבעון פילוסופי. 47: 21–40. ISSN 0021-3306. JSTOR 23352599. Archived from the original on 2021-09-05. Retrieved 2021-09-05.

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Maltby, J., Day, L., Gill, P., Colley, A., Wood, A.M. (2008). Beliefs around luck: Confirming the empirical conceptualization of beliefs around luck and the development of the Darke and Freedman beliefs around luck scale Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine Personality and Individual Differences, 45, 655–660.

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"The Science Of Luck". 17 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2022-07-18. Retrieved 2018-01-22.

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Sumit Kumar Sirkar, Pothi (2010). "How to be Lucky and Successful in Life". Pothi.com. p. 5. Archived from the original on 2012-09-23. Retrieved 2012-10-04.

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Stearns, James M.; Borna, Shaheen (1995-01-01). "The ethics of lottery advertising: Issues and evidence". Journal of Business Ethics. 14 (1): 43–51. doi:10.1007/BF00873735. ISSN 1573-0697. S2CID 154717674.
Dudley, Underwood (1997). Numerology or What Pythagoras Wrought. Spectrum. Vol. 19. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society. doi:10.1090/spec/019. ISBN 978-1-4704-5283-4. S2CID 243070708.
Hamilton, Mark W. (2019). "Riddles and Revelations: Explorations into the Relationship between Wisdom and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible ed. by Mark J. Boda, Russell L. Meek, and William R. Osborne". The Catholic Biblical Quarterly. 81 (4): 753–755. doi:10.1353/cbq.2019.0191. ISSN 2163-2529. S2CID 204517104.

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"A rail safety superstition • TrackSafe". www.tracksafe.co.nz. Archived from the original on 2023-01-18. Retrieved 2023-03-08.

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Vyse, Stuart (2018). "Superstition, Ethics, and Transformative Consumer Research". Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. 3 (4): 582–590. doi:10.1086/698869. Retrieved 21 November 2025. [...] when establishing the price of products, Chinese marketers tend to choose prices that end with the lucky number 8 and avoid endings with the unlucky number 4. Other studies have evaluated the effects of Feng Shui on preferences for houses [...].

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Yablon, Alys R. (24 February 2015) [2008]. Field Guide to Luck: How to Use and Interpret Charms, Signs, and Superstitions. Philadelphia: Quirk Books. ISBN 9781594748363. Archived from the original on 7 December 2025. Retrieved 7 November 2025. Hoodoo conjuring allows people to access their supernatural powers to improve their lives [...].
Menjivar, Mark (9 June 2015). The Luck Archive: Exploring Belief, Superstition, and Tradition. San Antonio, Texas: Trinity University Press. ISBN 9781595342508. Archived from the original on 26 December 2025. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
"Breaking a mirror - Meaning of broken mirror". www.mirrorhistory.com. Archived from the original on 2017-04-13. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
"Navajo Superstitions". navajocodetalkers.org. Archived from the original on 2024-08-23. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
CHANCE News 4.15 Archived 2017-06-18 at the Wayback Machine ...the definition in the Oxford English dictionary: "the fortuitous happening of an event favorable or unfavorable to the interest of a person"
Sumit Kumar Sirkar, Pothi (2010). "How to be Lucky and Successful in Life". Pothi.com. p. 5. Archived from the original on 2012-09-23. Retrieved 2012-10-04.
Maltby, J., Day, L., Gill, P., Colley, A., Wood, A.M. (2008). Beliefs around luck: Confirming the empirical conceptualization of beliefs around luck and the development of the Darke and Freedman beliefs around luck scale Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine Personality and Individual Differences, 45, 655–660.
"The Science Of Luck". 17 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2022-07-18. Retrieved 2018-01-22.
Zare, Douglas. "A Measure of Luck". Archived from the original on 10 June 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
Miller, Ed (Nov 27, 2009). "The Pitfalls of Running Good". CardPlayer.com. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2014. I've always thought that one of the worst things that can happen to new poker players is for them to run really good right out of the gate. If they rack up a number of big wins early on, a couple of bad things can happen.
"The History of the Coin Toss | The Royal Mint". www.royalmint.com. Archived from the original on 2021-09-05. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
"A rail safety superstition • TrackSafe". www.tracksafe.co.nz. Archived from the original on 2023-01-18. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
"A Basic Buddhism Guide: Good Luck and Fate". Buddhanet.net. Archived from the original on 2024-03-07. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
Thai Amulets (2007-02-09). "Thai Amulets". Thailand Life. Archived from the original on 2010-01-03. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
Katzoff, Charlotte (1998). "Divine Causality and Moral Responsibility in the Story of Joseph and His Brothers". Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly / עיון: רבעון פילוסופי. 47: 21–40. ISSN 0021-3306. JSTOR 23352599. Archived from the original on 2021-09-05. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
Mukundananda, Swami. "Chapter 2, Verse 47 – Bhagavad Gita, The Song of God – Swami Mukundananda". www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org. Archived from the original on 2022-03-21. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
"La Tunisie de A à Z, Khomsa". Saisons tunisiennes. Archived from the original on October 20, 2009. Retrieved September 10, 2009.

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Stearns, James M.; Borna, Shaheen (1995-01-01). "The ethics of lottery advertising: Issues and evidence". Journal of Business Ethics. 14 (1): 43–51. doi:10.1007/BF00873735. ISSN 1573-0697. S2CID 154717674.
Shortland, Edward (2011). Traditions and superstitions of the New Zealanders : with illustrations of their manners and customs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-10908-6. OCLC 820719167.
Bartholomew, David J. (2008). God, chance, and purpose : can God have it both ways?. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-38723-4. OCLC 249076888.
Hamilton, Mark W. (2019). "Riddles and Revelations: Explorations into the Relationship between Wisdom and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible ed. by Mark J. Boda, Russell L. Meek, and William R. Osborne". The Catholic Biblical Quarterly. 81 (4): 753–755. doi:10.1353/cbq.2019.0191. ISSN 2163-2529. S2CID 204517104.
Giberson, Karl W. (2015). "Chance, Divine Action and the Natural Order of Things". Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 27 (1): 100–109. doi:10.5840/jis2015271/27. ISSN 0890-0132.
Katzoff, Charlotte (1998). "Divine Causality and Moral Responsibility in the Story of Joseph and His Brothers". Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly / עיון: רבעון פילוסופי. 47: 21–40. ISSN 0021-3306. JSTOR 23352599. Archived from the original on 2021-09-05. Retrieved 2021-09-05.

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