The Good Luck Fairy
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
The Good Luck Fairy is a useful personification of the phenomenon of random beneficial events. It is derived partly from folk myth and partly from the uncertainty principle and chaos theory. The Good Luck Fairy prevents people from stepping onto doomed aircraft by stealing their passport as they check in, or secretes a banknote in a jacket pocket to be discovered just as one contemplates having to leave the pub through lack of funds. In the tradition of Santa Claus there is only one Good Luck Fairy. Contrasting this with the well known fact that the personifications known as Gremlins, arguably the Good Luck Fairy's dark siblings, exist as a horde gives us a valuable insight into the human condition.
