Notes

Introduction

  1. E. M. Forster, The Longest Journey (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1907), 212.
  2. Max Gunther, Instant Millionaires: The Secrets of Overnight Success (Petersfield, UK: Harriman House Ltd., 2011; originally published 1973), 195.
  3. Lysann Damisch, http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/keep-your-fingers-crossed-how-superstition-improves-performance.html
  4. Eric Wargo, “The Many Lives of Superstition,” in Observer, October 2008. Available online at: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2008/october-08/the-many-lives-of-superstition.html.

Chapter One

  1. Michael Neill, The Inside Out Revolution (Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, Inc., 2013), 23.
  2. Sharon Begley, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves (New York: Ballantine Books, 2007), 90–92, 110–111.
  3. David Shenk, The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ is Wrong (New York: Doubleday, 2010), 74–78.
  4. Eleanor A. Maguire, Katherine Woollett, and Hugo J. Spiers, “London Taxi Drivers and Bus Drivers: A Structural MRI and Neuropsychological Analysis” (Hippocampus 16, 2006), 1091–1101. http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Maguire/Maguire2006.pdf See also: The Knowledge, Public Carriage Office, Transport for London. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/taxisandprivatehire/1412.aspx.
  5. “The Brain: How the Brain Rewires Itself.” Article in Time Magazine, January 19, 2007. Available online at: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1580438-1,00.html.

Chapter Two

  1. http://www.synergysuccessstrategies.com.au/admin/editor/uploaded/Metropolitan%20Life%20Case%20Study.pdf.
  2. Steve Kilgallon, “What I Do,” in Sunday supplement of Star-Times, New Zealand, July 22, 2012, 34.
  3. Royston M. Roberts, Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1989), 1–3.
  4. http://www.healthassociatesllc.com/files/1352751786.pdf. Further information can be found in Dr. Seligman’s books: Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment (New York: Free Press, 2002) and Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life (New York: Free Press, 1994).
  5. Robert Emmons’s books include: The Psychology of Gratitude (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) and Thanks! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Company, 2007).
  6. http://www.iamthankful.com/science/gratitude-interventions-project-by-dr-robert-emmons.
  7. Walter Winchell attributed the quote to J. J. Lerner in 1949, more than ten years before it was used by Gary Player. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/14/luck/
  8. Russell H. Conwell, Acres of Diamonds (Philadelphia: John Y. Huber Company, 1890).
  9. Max Weber, translated by A. M. Henderson and Talcott Parsons, The Theory of Social and Economic Organization (New York: Oxford University Press, 1947), 328. See also: On Charisma and Institution Building by Max Weber, edited by S. N. Eisenstadt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968).
  10. John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956), 121.

Chapter Three

  1. Richard Webster, Write Your Own Magic (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2001), 125.
  2. Ahmad ibn ‘Ali al-Buni, quoted in Credulities Past and Present by William Jones (London: Chatto & Windus, 1880), 240.

Chapter Four

  1. George Frederick Kunz, The Curious Lore of Precious Stones (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1913), 307.

Chapter Five

  1. Lysann Damisch, Barbara Stoberock, and Thomas Mussweiler, “Keep Your Fingers Crossed! How Superstition Improves Performance.” Article in Psychological Science, May 27, 2010. Available online at: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/05/27/0956797610372631.
  2. Deborah Aaronson and Kevin Kwan, Luck: The Essential Guide (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), 11.
  3. Leo Vinci, Talismans, Amulets and Charms (London: Regency Press, 1977), 45.
  4. The Holy Bible, King James Version (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers), 1984.
  5. E. A. Wallis Budge, Amulets and Superstitions (London: Oxford University Press, 1930), 490.
  6. Richard Webster, Omens, Oghams, and Oracles (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1995), 22–23.
  7. Michael Weinstein, The World of Jewel Stones (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Son, 1959), 71.
  8. Carol Andrews, Amulets of Ancient Egypt (London: British Museum Press, 1994), 50.
  9. E. A. Wallis Budge, Amulets and Superstitions (London: Oxford University Press, 1930), 134.

Chapter Seven

  1. Richard Webster, 101 Feng Shui Tips for the Home (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1998), 2–3.
  2. E. and M.A. Radford, (edited and revised by Christina Hole), Encyclopaedia of Superstitions (London: Hutchinson & Company [Publishers] Limited, 1961. Originally published in 1948), 333.

Chapter Ten

  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Macropaedia, vol. 16, 15th ed. (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1983), 193.

Chapter Twelve

  1. http://www.totalprosports.com/2012/10/17/justin-verlander
    -rub-detroit-tigers-trainer-bald-head-good-luck-video/.
  2. Richard Webster, Encyclopedia of Superstitions (Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2008), 45.
  3. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O3311/the-luck-of-edenhall-beaker-and-case-unknown/.

Chapter Thirteen

  1. http://www.time.com/time/politics/whitehouse/photos/0.27424.1811278.00.html.
  2. Richard Wiseman and Caroline Watt, Measuring Superstitious Belief: Why Lucky Charms Matter, http://www.good-luck-gifts.com/presents/images/stories/Documents/Lucky_charms_matter_-_Wiseman.pdf.
  3. David Derbyshire, “Lucky Charms DO Work: Study Proves They Increase Chance of Success,” in Daily Mail, UK, July 15, 2010. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1294985/Lucky-charms-DO-work-Study-proves-increase-chances-success.html.
  4. Abraham Pais, Inward Bound: Of Matters and Forces in the Physical World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 210.

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