“Very superstitious,
Writings on the wall,
Very superstitious,
Ladder's 'bout to fall,
Thirteen month old baby,
Broke the looking glass,
Seven years of bad luck,
The good things in your past.”

—  Stevie Wonder

Superstition
Song lyrics, Talking Book (1972)

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