21.   Still, if history is a guide, facing the same foe twice in the World Cup is a lucky charm for Brazil.

22.   Thanks to their lucky charm Orel Hershiser, the Florida Marlins are just one win away from their first World Series title.

23.   Syndicate chief Peter Blake wore red socks as a lucky charm throughout the cup campaign.

24.   When Fabiano and his friends learned the truth about the stone he showed around as a kind of lucky charm, he became a pariah.

25.   Zanardi, who was near the front all weekend in practice sessions, said Brazil was his lucky charm.

26.   Gretzky was presented with the secret lucky charm after the game when arena workers dug up the coin.

27.   Human organs, mixed with some herbal concoctions, are traditionally believed by some people in Zimbabwe, to be lucky charms.

28.   Two murderers who killed a man and sold his brain to a businessman to use as a lucky charm have been sentenced to death, local media reported Tuesday.

29.   The local Chinese community consider them lucky charms, the reports said.