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Three_on_a_match_(superstition) abstract "Three on a match (also known as third on a match or unlucky third light) is a purported superstition among soldiers during the Crimean War to World War II. The superstition goes that if three soldiers lit their cigarettes from the same match, one of the three would be killed or that the man who was third on the match would be shot. Since then it has been considered bad luck for three people to share a light from the same match.The belief was that when the first soldier lit his cigarette, the enemy would see the light; when the second soldier lit his cigarette from the same match, then for this was that the first to light the match gave an enemy marksman the range to the target, the second gave the windage on the target, and the third one was shot using this information.No references have been found to the superstition during the First World War, though its first known appearance in the United States occurs a year after the war's end. An editorial in the Grand Rapids Leader, December 17, 1919, muses, "Why should we be superstitious? Three on a match, or a black cat crossing the road in front of us, or looking [at] the moon over the left shoulder, have not altered results in anyone's case." A cartoon two years later portrays an insect attempting to climb onto floating match already occupied by two beetles. The caption reads, "Get off of here! Don't you know that three on a match is unlucky?"The superstition is popularly alleged to have been invented in the mid- to late 1920s by the Swedish match tycoon Ivar Kreuger in an attempt to get people to use more matches but it appears he merely made very shrewd use of the already existing belief which may date to the Boer War. In the 1916 novel The Wonderful Year the following explanation is given: "It arises out of the Russian funeral ritual in which the three altar candles are lit by the same taper. To apply the same method of illumination to three worldly things like cigars or cigarettes is regarded as an act of impiety and hence as unlucky."An article by John G. Bourke, January 5, 1894, describes the superstition among the Mexican population of the Rio Grande region in the southern United States near Fort Ringgold, Texas: "Numbers - If three men light their cigarillos from the same match, bad luck will surely overtake one of them soon. (Alberto Leal.)"".
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Three_on_a_match_(superstition) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Three on a match (superstition)".
Three_on_a_match_(superstition) wikiPageWikiLinkText "superstition of the same name".
Three_on_a_match_(superstition) wikiPageWikiLinkText "third light".
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Three_on_a_match_(superstition) comment "Three on a match (also known as third on a match or unlucky third light) is a purported superstition among soldiers during the Crimean War to World War II. The superstition goes that if three soldiers lit their cigarettes from the same match, one of the three would be killed or that the man who was third on the match would be shot.".
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