to ward off bad luck
11Calefare — Infobox Television bgcolour = show name = Calefare caption = Logo of the TV series format = Sitcom runtime = 30 minutes (with commercials) creator = TBA developer = TBA executive producer = starring = Gurmit Singh Fiona Xie Benjamin Heng Vadi… …
12Sonthi Boonyaratglin — Infobox President | name =Sonthi Boonyaratglin สนธิ บุญยรัตกลิน nationality = Thai order = Chairman of the Council for National Security term start = 19 September 2006 term end = 1 October 2006 vicepresident = predecessor = Thaksin Shinawatra (as …
13Dewi Sri — The depiction of Dewi Sri in Central Java art Dewi Sri, or Dewi Shri (Dewi literally means goddess) (Javanese), Nyai Pohaci Sanghyang Asri (Sundanese) is the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese pre Hindu and pre Islam era goddess of rice an …
14Ghost Festival — This article is about the Chinese Ghost Festival. For the festival in Loei province, Thailand, see Pee Ta Khon. Ghost Festival An array of foods being offered to the deceased at a Buddhist temple Official name …
15Tenggerese — The Tenggerese are the descendants of the Majapahit princes. Their population of roughly 600,000 is centered in thirty villages in the isolated Tengger mountains (Mount Bromo) within the Bromo Tengger Semeru national park in East Central Java.… …
16touch (or chiefly N. Amer. knock on) wood — touch something wooden to ward off bad luck. → wood …
17wood — noun 1》 the hard fibrous material forming the main substance of the trunk or branches of a tree or shrub, used for fuel or timber. ↘(the wood) wooden barrels used for storing alcoholic drinks. ↘a golf club with a wooden or other head that …
18apotropaic — /əpɒtrəˈpeɪɪk/ (say uhpotruh payik) adjective having, or considered to have, the power to avert evil, especially to ward off bad luck. {Greek apotropaios averting evil + ic} –apotropaically, adverb …
19touch wood — Expression used to ward off bad luck …
20knock on wood — ► touch (or chiefly N. Amer. knock on) wood touch something wooden to ward off bad luck. Main Entry: ↑wood …
