Historical Charms. Human Beings, Animals.

Historical Charms.  Human Beings, Animals. Men and women as charms. IT is a well-established belief that some human beings possess, it may be unconsciously, this same strange power, and are notably lucky or unlucky to those they come into close contact with. It is stated that the Rothschilds will never employ a man if they know him to have been unlucky. The writer of this work is acquainted with a man who boasts of his power as a mascot for good luck to any one who has dealings with him. In society Lady Bancroft was always credited with the power of being a mascot ; so much was this believed that many of her friends begged some object from her that she had worn, and to these favoured ones she usually gave a shoe. Royal sailors who give ill-luck. Examples of human beings who act as unlucky forces are numerous, and prob- ably the most prominent of these are to be found among those of royal blood who have adopted a sea- faring life as a profession. Among these may be mention...