“It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship."
"It's awful worse luck not to.”
Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
“A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.”
— Joanne Harris, book Chocolat
Source: Chocolat
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