Is it possible to be cursed with bad luck

These personal superstitions are common among people who have dangerous jobs or those that leave a lot to chance, says Mr Roud. Indeed, some footballers are slaves to ridiculous rituals. Mrs Hemming says once a lucky or unlucky notion gets into your head it is "very hard to un-know it" and more of an effort to avoid it than go along with it.

Joan Carthy and Paulette Hall are sitting on a windowsill in Birmingham city centre waiting to go to work. And knowing my luck it'd be a house brick. This story was inspired by questions sent in by readers and a version was first published in England's strange winter rituals.

Friday 13th - unlucky for some. Superstitions in medieval England. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. But do they really believe it? Do you think Friday 13th is unlucky? For example, we survive by recognizing feeding patterns and put ourselves in the right places at the right times for meals.

We also avoid injury or death when crossing a busy street by recognizing traffic patterns. Getting fed and avoiding being squashed in traffic both involve learning real cause-and-effect patterns.

A superstition is born. We also acquire superstitious beliefs during socialization, learning about them from parents and other trusted authorities while still young and open to a world full of magical possibilities. Then our superstitions circulate indefinitely among families and friends, reinforced by word of mouth, social media and mass media.

The more people there are supporting the superstition , the more believable it will seem and the longer it will persist. Advice yes, help, not so much. Anyway, sorry for the rant. It really does help. It also helps you discover solutions, ways of maybe doing things more efficiently or solving or reducing the stress of problems. My wife can only use natural shampoos because the others cause itchy scalp issues. Sadly, my stepmother died of MS related issues, so I know exactly how devastating and emotionally draining this disease can be.

The rat infestation was horrid and the house was just rotting. Things can and will get better. Take some time out for you. I tried very hard to make my life be worth living and was decent in it too and never hurt any living being on purpose and everything failed for me. Someone can show me how they take a box from the floor and put it on a table. In the strangest ways I will fail. The box breaks, the table breaks, I trip, something falls on me, etc. All very well and good.

I can fully understand why people take the easy way out, one quiet Tuesday afternoon. It is truly as if someone wants me to suffer. My entire life has been nothing but a cruel joke. My husband just diagnosed with a terminal illness….

Think negatively? Be bitter? That only spirals one way. If you still have a fighting chance then you have to take the odds. Honestly you have no idea, I pray ome day the curse will leave me. I feel like I know where it came from too. But good luck with your journey guys! I have had lots of bad things happen.

I survived an alcoholic first husband even though he tried to murder me. I finally managed to run away with my sons they have turned out to be great boys…kind hearted, gentle, hard working.

I survived poverty, nearly being made homeless. I had 2 long illnesses not cancer it took 2 years to diagnose the second one and I lost over 12 stone in the process until surgery and recovery. I survived a house fire…. I would have been homeless but, for house insurance…they paid for hotel then rented property and for the repairs. That same year it was my third piece of bad luck…. January my beloved German Shepherd died in my arms at home, she was not even ill. In July my best friend of 21 years who I had been a career for for 17 years passed away from a non cancerous slow growing brain tumour.

She had a seizure, fell from her stairlift and I found her barely alive. After being on life support for a week I had to make the decision to switch it off because non of her family cared enough to bother with her for 10 years because she ran out of money to give them…so very sad!!!!

September was the house fire. Since then I have returned to my house. At the time of the fire my only thought was that I woke and was able to escape with my dog. Me and my dog were the only important things and we survived. In the last couple of years I have bee suffering foot pain and after many appointments and trying all the things the doctors told me to do I am on the waiting list for surgery…which should alleviate a lot of the pain. I now have three dogs and they keep me going, exercise, play and they give lots of love.

I struggle a bit at work but, my employer has given me an adapted desk and a special chair and made allowances for my not being able to stand for long periods of time for floor walking nor for travelling to another location to work. So, this too is positive.

I do my beat not to think negative thoughts though sometimes I do but, I try to move on from them. It distracted him and he relaxed his grip enabling my mother to push him off get up and run. He never tried to harm me just stared at me. I then ran too. The police caught him but, did not prosecute as he was an escapee from one of the local mental health facilities, of which there were 5 in our town at the time.

My mother never spoke about this after it happened and she could not bare to be around me as it reminded her of what happened.

I grew up with this in the depths of my mind from until my dad told me in that I had saved my mother from being murdered. So I finally managed to deal with this and move on. To me what is done is done and anything that now happens I deal with and move on. Okay I am not showered with riches, nor do I have the perfect life not reality really but, for me I just keep going and hope for the future to get better. I know that for some people it is difficult and many will have a life far worse than mine.

I try to help people where I can nowadays both at work and in personal life however, I do make sure I have time for me these days. I came across this article at the moment I needed it most and just wanted to say Thankyou for helping me pick myself up off the ground.

My car has been hit four times in separate occasions parked on my street. No witness no notes left by the 3rd party! I cant believe my bad luck! None of the other cars on my road has been hit once let alone four times! Why is this happening to me? Why my car? Its Unbelievable! Makes me depressed i just cant understand why its happening. I am a good driver and very carful but when its parked theres nothing i can do to avoid this happening.

Very bad luck for many of us men trying to find love nowadays, especially since most women now that have their very high standards along with a lot of very high unrealistic expectations too. Most women in the past were nothing at all like today, which is why finding love was very easy back then. Most women today are very pathetic, and they need to just get a bunch of cats and grow very old all alone with them.

I always struggle. Nothing comes easy to me. I see people getting success like a cakewalk but for me, it saps all my energy and will power. Your article helped me because resonated with me. What I am going through. I do not see any end to my bad luck. It is now part of my life. It is how my life has been written. But it was good to read an article that talked about feelings that I go through. Hang in there Kusum. Keep pushing forward and believe in yourself. Good things are going to come your way.

My life is very similar. I work very hard, try to make the right decisions, and nothing goes well. I have not been lucky in life. I never found a partner. Just had to deal with heart issues, and something was seen on MRI that was an extra finding.

I have a spinal stenosis. Not good. Now I have to deal with this. I feel terrorized in my body. It seems something is always going wrong, and I live in a healthy way. I take care of myself. Thanks for putting theses words. Thanks again for not speaking spiritually and making believing of Karmas or god or something else.

We all know that we just have to wake up and move the floor and action with enough dedication, research and commitment. But sometimes we need external forces like you or some medium to say us Wake up this is the direction you are supposed to take and correct us. Anyone else believe in generational curses? It seems like some of us have it.

I was born into a happy average income earning family in Beirut Lebanon. My mother came from a broken family and my father came from poverty Armenians from the diaspora during genocide but they both managed to give us a happy life until october my father aged 49 died from a heart attack and ever since then every bad luck you can think of has plagued us.

We were 4 siblings, me the youngest, 11 years between the 3rd child and I, my mother calls me her miracle child but in reality our lives have been nothing close to a miracle. Everything we ever had or strived for was met with so much pushback and devastation one can only wonder what evil powers are at play here! Same boat, same struggles.

It always seems like in any situation if there is a possibility of a shitty outcome, it will find me. The bad karma for me is instant…………waiting for the day I see the light at the end of that tunnel. What if you could be the one to break out and find peace and happiness?

I lost my last job after i had been promotion to a supervisor level and was in line for another promotion and transfer from a Mine to the HQ. I do stay hopeful positive but as i say, odds are against. You have two kids and a hell of a lot of life experience to share with them and others in the world. That counts for a lot.

Hang in there, keep moving forward, one step at a time. Be strong for your kids and let their spirit motivate you to be the best you can. Something good is coming your way. I just know it is. For the men and women out there nowadays that are married with a family, you should really consider yourselves very lucky and blessed since you have each other and your children to share your life with.

Many of us single men have been very Cursed with singleness by God unfortunately, and many of us men would had certainly wanted that as well. Being single and alone for many of us is really No fun at all. I am now almost 70 years old. I have studied bad luck and I can tell you that we are born with a tendency for events bad and good luck. Per the Chinese Zodiac I am a Rabbit and one of my bad luck numbers is 7.

The worst years of my life have been 21, 28 35 and 63, all divisions of 7. I have several examples of 7 being bad luck for me. I never believed in any of the stuff before 3 years ago.

I now bereave it is where, when and who you are born to that determines most of your life. You can change some of your luck by avoiding pitfalls-dangerous situations and people. However we are mostly screwed. Positive thinking has a vary negative result on me. JJ, I can empathize. We almost have to do things in a custom way completely different than others just to be able to have a content and peaceful time.

Good luck. The truth is, no one has figured out padlock. If someone is always trying to make the right choices, always trying to learn from mistakes, and always trying to pick themselves up from being let down or had gone through bad circumstances, and they STILL have bad luck….. At least for now. Welp, I actually read every single one of these responses and not a single one compares.

I am absolutely in a state of complete and total despair. None of which have I had any control over whatsoever. Senseless to put anything here as it would just be regurgitating again for nobody to see anyway. I think my mother cursed me before she died. That is all. Have a nice day. I am in believe that im cursed or I am the JOB. Wife gets in a accident in my car without a license dui and next thing child services are here local PD to pass the news and since tbey found my now ex wives wine bottle and dirty dishes the battle starts.

Mind u my son 10 weeks old dies suddenly and divorce of my 1st marriage. Saturday rolls around a co worker running her mouth and with all my shit going on I snapped at her now im getting fired.

SO is it im job or what is wrong. Do these jobs make you happy, though? Are these jobs what you really want out of life or are you trying? Perhaps you need to reassess where you are and where you want to get to. When you are on the right path and following your intuition things tend to fall into place.

All the best. Worked so hard to better my life. When covid came around I lost a temp job. I had been out of work for a long time. Then Finally I get a chance at a job , nothing I really wanted to do but it was a chance.

But I got covid and they would not hold the job for me. I was devastated I worked so hard to find a job. It puts you in tears. Then someone who hardly puts any effort gets a job. Or those who are harsh and say there are people worse off then you. It gets very depressing , something im trying to avoid. Your email address will not be published. Notify me via e-mail if anyone answers my comment.

But it's just a belief. It isn't a real thing. It's all in the mind. And that is the thing about dealing with bad luck, and getting over it: it is all about mindset. Keeping it Real But let's be frank about this. There are 7.

You get the picture. We all experience bad luck. But like wealth, bad luck is relative. Your version of bad luck might be someone else's version of a pretty normal day. The Self-Blame Game But rather than letting go of the bad luck and moving on with a positive mindset that things will get better , we often enter the self-blame game. So it is no surprise that we begin to attract more of the same.

How to Move Forward, Positively When you are in a run of bad luck, there is only one thing you can do, and that is to move forward. You are causing yourself more pain. You are essentially making the event bigger than it needs to be. You are breathing new life into something that has already come and gone. You are allowing the bad luck to dictate your present situation, and ultimately your future.

These things do make you stronger. These experiences will shape your life. We all have to go through our fair share of bad luck. Take Action Now! Then you might choose to join some job agencies who will do some of the searching for you. For most of us it is soon shrugged off, but in many places belief in "the evil eye" is taken very seriously, and requires immediate action to avoid harm.

The evil eye is a human look believed to cause harm to someone or something. The supernatural harm may come in the form of a minor misfortune, or more serious disease, injury — even death.

Folklorist Alan Dundes, in his edited volume "The Evil Eye: A Casebook" notes that "the victim's good fortune, good health, or good looks — or unguarded comments about them — invite or provoke an attack by someone with the evil eye Symptoms of illness caused by the evil eye include loss of appetite, excessive yawning, hiccups, vomiting and fever. If the object attacked is a cow, its milk may dry up; if a plant or fruit tree, it may suddenly wither and die. The evil eye is also said to cause a number of other maladies including insomnia, fatigue, depression and diarrhea.

In many places, disease is considered a magical as well as a medical issue, and the reason a given person succumbs to a malady may be attributed to a curse instead of random chance or exposure to a virus. It can even affect objects and buildings: The evil eye cast upon a vehicle may break down irreparably, while a house so cursed may soon develop a leaky roof or an insect infestation.

Just about anything that goes wrong may be blamed on the power of the evil eye. The evil eye is well known throughout history. It is mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman texts, as well as in many famous literary works, including the Bible such as Proverbs "Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats" the Koran and Shakespeare's plays.

Though belief in the evil eye is widespread, it is not universal.