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Curses, Coincidences & Malign Influence
A Parapsychological Perspective
Peter A McCue Abramis Academic 2021
Pb, 195pp, £9.95, ISBN 9781845497941
Many cultures, including archaic ones, have some notion of luck. It seems to be a fundamental component of what psychologists and anthropologists call “magical thinking”. The feeling arises that someone else’s luck somehow diminishes your own (gamblers often believe this). Frustrations – whether from failure and loss or illness and death – are blamed upon antagonistic forces deliberately targeting
