Born in St Albans, the young Banks “grew up loving both music and acting”, going to stage classes on Sundays and taking guitar lessons at her local pub. At eight, she was cast in the West End ...

Whether it’s wearing a specific jersey — or in the case of Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s interpreter, lucky boxers with a rabbit shooting a rainbow-colored laser out of its eyes — or making sure you’re ...

Why are we conditioned to associate things like black cats, Friday the 13th, and mirrors with bad luck and eeriness? The answer lies deep within stories of mythology, ancient civilization, religious ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By the end of 1965, Japan looked every bit the enlightened, science-led, technology-driven society it ...

When it comes to superstitions, many of us like to think we're above it all. But deep down, there's a little part of us that can't help but wonder if maybe—just maybe—there's something to these ...

Skiers, like team sports fans, have hunches. They’ve made observations or fabulated mystical connections that may or may not exist. Like everyone else on Earth, they’re human, and they’re plenty ...

Let's talk about some of them and what they mean. Here's our list of the top 10 superstitions Nigerians still follow. We may laugh at these superstitions sometimes, but when we begin to see their ...

Superstitions have a funny way of sticking around, don't they? Even now, in 2025, you might find yourself hesitating before walking under a ladder or feeling a bit uneasy when you break a mirror. Our ...

Sometimes it's easy to let a superstition go as nothing more than that — a superstition. It might be fun to talk about and speculate on, but it's not really anything meaningful. Other times, however, ...