Ladies' Room

Experts have claimed that lucky charms and superstitious actions can work. However rather than their supposed powers, it's down to the confidence they give us.

Researchers asked students to bring a lucky charm to a test, then half had them taken away "to be photographed" and weren't returned before the test.

Those who had their lucky keepsakes performed significantly better than those without in the memory and confidence tests.

Some insist on hanging a horseshoe in their hallway, others hold onto a four leaf clover while many refuse to walk under a ladder, but where do you fall on the superstition scale?

Do you use superstition as a means to control your luck, or do you dismiss it as mumbo-jumbo?

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