Good luck is something people from all cultures long for, and amulets,

Talismans, symbols and lucky charms therefore represent guardians and triggers of positive events. The question that comes to one's mind is whether such items do work in the direction the wearer wants them. Some objects have the capacity to store and transfer positive or negative energy, influenced by their structure, and many studies have attempted to analyze the amount of energy specific to living organisms and objects.

There are two sources of energy for lucky charms, in general: personal belief and sacred consecration. Here is the way this mechanism works.

Lucky charms charge with a superior amount of energy granted by believers: people who are convinced that a horseshoe symbol brings them luck initiate a transfer of the positive energy of their belief onto the object. Then, if the lucky charms have been exposed to a form of sacred service, a religious ritual that involves blessings and prayers, then part of the beauty and the subtlety of the divine energy specific to the ritual will pass onto the charms as such. According to statistics, 30% of the lucky charms wearers have improved their fortune by trusting the power of their symbols.

Furthermore, expecting lucky charms to solve all the negative aspects in one's life is far-fetched and wrong, since the person directly involved needs to take action and do something about it. Actions set the course, and if they contradict the law of positive thinking and harmonious feeling, then, the disturbance has a clear consequence in the inefficiency of the lucky charms.

Depending on the culture, various elements and symbols have been attributed an important part in the guarding of our good fortunesand here we could mention just a few of them like the om symbol, the horseshoe, the clove, the Rudraksh, lockets or the swastika. Mention must be made that what works as a good luck charm in one culture may be interpreted otherwise in a different one.

The most conclusive example of lucky charms that characterize one culture only is the swastika. In Indian symbolism, the swastika is the sign of the Hindu God of good fortune, Ganesh, and it differs in design from the Nazi Swastika by the angle at which it is placed. Many people are not familiar with this very elementary difference and will often mistake the two symbols.

Even so, in Western cultures, the swastika remains a dreaded symbol for one of the darkest moments in the history of mankind.

Though not as striking as this example, other lucky charms from one culture remain irrelevant for another.