๊ณตํต์
๋๋ค ํ์ด(good luck)์ ๋น๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๋ฏธํจ.
Touch wood
Knocking(๋ฏธ๊ตญ) on wood (also phrased touching(์๊ตญ) wood or touch wood)
ํ์ด์ ๋น๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๋ฏธํจ
์ ๋
- ๋๋ฌด์ ์ ๋ น์ด ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ฏฟ์ด ๋๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ง์ง๋ ๊ฑด ๊ทธ ์ ๋ น์๊ฒ ํ์ด์ ๋น(๊ณ ๋ ์ผํธ์กฑ)
(the phenomenon to ancient Celtic peoples, who believed it called on spirits or gods of the trees)
- ๋๋ฌด๋ฅผ ํฐ์นํ๋ฉด ์กํ๋ ๊ฒ์์ ๋ฉด์ ๋๋ ์ ๋์ก๊ธฐ ๋์ด("Tiggy Touchwood" ,19์ธ๊ธฐ ์์ด๋ค์ ๋์ด)์์ ๋น๋กฏ๋จ
(A more modern theory from folklore researcher Steve Roud suggests it derives from a form of tag called "Tiggy Touchwood" in which players are safe from being tagged if they are touching wood)
- ๊ธฐ๋
๊ต์ธ๋ค์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ค๋์ ์ญ์๊ฐ์ ๋ชป ๋ฐํ ์ญ์๊ฐ์ ๋๋ฌด์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ์์ผ ์ ์ ๋ณดํธ๋ฅผ ๋น์๋ค๋ ์ค
people knocked on wood to chase away evil spirits or prevent them from listening in when they boasted about their luck, thereby preventing a reversal of fortune. Christians, meanwhile, have often linked the practice to the wood of the cross from Christโs crucifixion.
Fingers crossed
Cross one's fingers, keep one's fingers crossed๋ก ์ฐ๋ฉฐ ์ก๋ง์ด๋ก ๋๋ ํ์ด์ ๋น๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ง๊ฒ์๊ฐ๋ฝ ์์ ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ์๊ฐ๋ฝ์ ํฌ๊ฐ์ด ์๋๋ฐฉ์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ์๋ฑ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ๊ฑธ ๋งํจ.
์ ๋
์
๊ท๋ฅผ ์ซ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ญ์๊ฐ(cross) ๋ชจ์์ ๋ง๋ ๋ฐ์ ์ ๋๋ ํํ
(it is claimed that in 16th-century England, fingers would be crossed in place of the Sign of the Cross to ward off evils and ill health.)