I've always collected luck charms...always. Since I was old enough to understand what they were, I had to have them. It wasn't that I felt 'unlucky', but more that I felt the impending doom of spirits around me that meant at least pull my pigtails.
I visited the Central Park Zoo with my grandfather as a child and he bought me a key chain...in it was a penny and around the horseshoe-shaped fob were the words 'keep me and never go broke'. Even as a 5 year old, I understood how profound that was...as long as I held on to that penny...I literally would never be broke.
Wow.
What a concept. Since then, I have found stones, crystals, jewelry, evil eyes, Italian horns, bindis, statues and so forth made their way into my collections...even a tattoo of a hamsa with an Om and nazar in the middle...Am I superstitious? I think so...but just a bit. Do I believe these items ward off 'bad'. Maybe. But what I *know* they do is make me aware that I am fortunate. I don't fear evil or bad in my life because I count my blessings...as I count my luck charms...
I visited the Central Park Zoo with my grandfather as a child and he bought me a key chain...in it was a penny and around the horseshoe-shaped fob were the words 'keep me and never go broke'. Even as a 5 year old, I understood how profound that was...as long as I held on to that penny...I literally would never be broke.
Wow.
What a concept. Since then, I have found stones, crystals, jewelry, evil eyes, Italian horns, bindis, statues and so forth made their way into my collections...even a tattoo of a hamsa with an Om and nazar in the middle...Am I superstitious? I think so...but just a bit. Do I believe these items ward off 'bad'. Maybe. But what I *know* they do is make me aware that I am fortunate. I don't fear evil or bad in my life because I count my blessings...as I count my luck charms...
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