A Different View with Dave O’Connell

Even the phrase itself belongs to a different era, but half of us are still in thrall to Old Wives’ Tales, those colloquial expressions from the distant past, often used to dissuade children from nefarious activities as much as anything else.

But they have left us with a lifelong habit of touching wood to avoid misfortune and firmly believing that breaking a mirror will bring us seven years of bad luck – back luck that any amount of wood-touching won’t undo.

We will walk out in front of speeding........

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