Almost nothing is said of Charles' spectacular victories, the central theme being the heroic loyalty of the Swedish people to their idolized king in misfortune and defeat.

:" It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.

However, in this variation of the story, the banshee is simply a ghoul, as opposed to a sign of misfortune.

While there is no scientific basis in Darwinism for the Darwin Awards, the stories are nevertheless entertaining, and can be thought of as an example of schadenfreude – deriving entertainment value out of the misfortune of others.

What is misfortune, or a quarrel, or a complaint?

The context of this reference is the 36 AD defeat of Herod Antipas in his conflict with Aretas IV of Nabatea, which the Jews of the time attributed to misfortune brought about by Herod's unjust execution of John.

While many today would say that any misfortune surrounding a production is mere coincidence, actors and other theatre people often consider it bad luck to mention Macbeth by name while inside a theatre, and sometimes refer to it indirectly, for example as " the Scottish play ", or " MacBee ", or when referring to the character and not the play, " Mr. and Mrs. M ", or " The Scottish King ".

The Theodicy of fortune and misfortune within sociology is the theory, as Weber suggested, of how " members of different social classes adopt different belief systems, or theodices, to explain their social situation.

Weber also writes that " the affluent embrace good fortune theodicies, which emphasise that prosperity is a blessing of God ... theodices of misfortune emphasise that affluence is a sign of evil and that suffering in this world will be rewarded in the next.

Meldrew, cursed with misfortune and always complaining, is married to long-suffering wife Margaret, who is often left exasperated by his many misfortunes.

One important way in which religious beliefs accomplish this is by providing a set of ideas about how and why the world is put together that allows people to accommodate anxieties and deal with misfortune.

The obvious objection that people sometimes suffer misfortune that was undeserved is met with by coupling karma with reincarnation, so that such suffering is the result of actions in previous lifetimes.

The concept of witchcraft as harmful is normally treated as a cultural ideology, a means of explaining human misfortune by blaming it either on a supernatural entity or a known person in the community.

As in anthropology, European witchcraft is seen by historians as an ideology for explaining misfortune ; however, this ideology manifested in diverse ways.

It is impossible to refrain from tears while speaking of this great misfortune.

In non-scientific societies, perceived magical attack is an idea sometimes employed to explain personal or societal misfortune.

** in the play and film Bent by Martin Sherman, the hero has the misfortune to spend the night with a storm trooper on the Night of the Long Knives, and is caught up in the arrests and sent to a concentration camp.

In this Shang Dynasty oracle bone ( which is incomplete ), a diviner asks the Shang king if there would be misfortune over the next ten days ; the king replied that he had consulted the ancestor Xiaojia in a worship ceremony.

In the Bible, the dwindling of Simeon is portrayed as being a divine punishment for their reaction to the Rape of Dinah, though many biblical scholars view the episode, and Dinah herself, as an aetiological myth which developed to explain Simeon's misfortune, after it had occurred.

If we consider the fact, " which the experience of God's saints in all ages has conclusively established, of the difficulty of subduing an infirmity of temper, as well as the pain, remorse, and humiliation such an infirmity is wont to cause to those who groan under it, we may be inclined to believe that not the least probable hypothesis concerning the ' thorn ' or ' stake ' in the flesh is that the loving heart of the apostle bewailed as his sorest trial the misfortune that, by impatience in word, he had often wounded those for whom he would willingly have given his life " ( Lias's Second Cor., Introd.

They have, by the help of Divine Providence, overcome all obstacles, and have made themselves free ... I know not by what misfortune, we are fallen into the error of those, who poised the Emperor Titus to make room for Domitian, who made away Augustus that they might have Tiberius, and changed Claudius for Nero ... whereas the people of England are now renowned, all over the world, for their great virtue and discipline ; and yet suffer an idiot, without courage, without sense, nay, without ambition, to have dominion in a country of liberty.

This characteristic has come to symbolize the ability to have success, overcome adversity, and recover from misfortune.

*" Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good ; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding ; and that there is always tomorrow.

Thus misfortune hounded successive generations of the House of Atreus, until atoned by Orestes in a court of justice held jointly by humans and gods.

It was used as a magical formula by the Gnostics of the sect of Basilides in invoking the aid of beneficent spirits against disease and misfortune.

Fleeing the country, he encountered the plague at Pińczów ; three of his four children were carried off ; and he himself, worn out by misfortune, expired in solitude and obscurity at Slavkov in Moravia, about the end of 1564.

" In the longer text of the Martyrs of Palestine, chapter 12, Eusebius states: " I think it best to pass by all the other events which occurred in the meantime: such as [...] the lust of power on the part of many, the disorderly and unlawful ordinations, and the schisms among the confessors themselves ; also the novelties which were zealously devised against the remnants of the Church by the new and factious members, who added innovation after innovation and forced them in unsparingly among the calamities of the persecution, heaping misfortune upon misfortune.

Josephus stated ( Antiquities 18. 5. 2 ) that the AD 36 defeat of Herod Antipas in the conflicts with Aretas IV of Nabatea was widely considered by the Jews of the time as misfortune brought about by Herod's unjust execution of John the Baptist.

The third misfortune it should ease was the suffering caused by death.

Andvari gives some background information about himself, including that he was cursed by a " norn of misfortune " in his " early days ".

Van Eeden credited borrowing this term from Daniel Hack Tuke and noted, " Psycho-therapy ... had the misfortune to be taken in tow by hypnotism.

Nevertheless, Cleopatra sailed with her fleet from Alexandria to the west along the Libyan coast to join the Caesarian leaders, but she was forced to return to Egypt because her ships were damaged by a violent storm and she became ill. Staius Murcus learned of the queen's misfortune and saw wreckage from her ships on the coast of Greece.

* In France and Francophone cultures, carnations symbolize misfortune and bad luck.

Tyche was a noble but stern goddess who opposed evils of the society and punished those unworthy of good with misfortune and kind people with good luck.

As the name indicates, he also controls the crossroads and has the power to grant or deny access to all other Loa, and he allows the " crossing " of bad luck, delibrate destruction, misfortune and injustices ( Haiti: List of Loa ).

Though some view the hat as strange and immature, Jughead considers it a good luck charm and when it is taken from him, misfortune comes his way.

In Hinduism, Aslesa or Aslesas is one of many goddesses of bad luck and misfortune.

Salt itself is often intertwined with luck and some of this ancient tradition can be seen in the superstitions, such as perceived misfortune when the salt cellar is overturned and the custom of throwing salt over the left shoulder for good luck.

Sometimes, Japanese people use the phrase " Kokura luck " meaning the lucky avoidance of some great misfortune, coined after Kokura was twice spared an A Bomb attack.

The Spartans, they claimed, had suffered a misfortune not through incapacity or overreaching, but through mere bad luck ; the Athenians should seize this opportunity to have peace with them on good terms.

* Kinuyo Tanaka as Oharu-The protagonist whose bad luck and misfortune lead to various struggles in life.

The melodrama of the narration — which became a catchphrase in the US — and the sympathetic pain of watching Bogataj wipe out week after week, transformed the uncredited ski jumper into an American icon of bad luck and misfortune.

The woman asked Eragon's blessing upon Elva, which he gave readily, using the Ancient Language: Atra gülai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waíse skölir frá rauthr, which he thought meant, Let luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded from misfortune.

It is later revealed in Eldest that he made a mistake and said " Let luck and happiness follow you and may you be a shield from misfortune ," which cursed her instead of the intended blessing.

However in Western history, black cats have often been looked upon as a symbol of evil omens, specifically being suspected of being the familiars of witches, and so most of western and southern Europe considers the black cat as a symbol of bad luck, especially if one crosses paths with a person, which is believed to be an omen of misfortune and death.

Caroline suffers from constant embarrassment and misfortune, stumbling from one crisis to the next due to a mixture of her own indecisiveness, clumsiness, and general bad luck.

Coinspinner gives its holder good luck, and brings misfortune on anyone trying to harm or hinder its current possessor.

Within the game, she is the Faerûnian deity of bad luck, misfortune, random mischief, and accidents.

Beshaba is introduced as the Maid of Misfortune, Black Bess, and Lady Doom ; she is the goddess of mischief, misfortune, ill luck, accidents, ( treachery, betrayal ), a chaotic evil lesser goddess from the Abyss.

# According to the first reason, the " bad luck " or " misfortune " of the katlanit may endanger her husband.

Another famous medieval French writer, Rutebeuf, wrote a poem called Poèmes de l ' infortune (" Poems of the misfortune " — or bad luck —) which contains those verses:

The same words were also loaned into German, as Massel (" luck "), and also as the verb vermasseln (" to ruin, screw up ") and " Schlamassel " (" misfortune, disaster ").

And whoever do not want to avoid misfortune and bad luck just by pouring water at one ’ s planetary post and ensure one ’ s peace of mind and end of anxieties.

Kenny does not like the idea, knowing that his parents will pay more attention to their baby instead of Kenny, his friends will stop hanging out with him and he'll have bad luck for the rest of his days once the baby sees the light of day as he has nightmares about it, so he continually tries to prevent the baby's conception, all which results in misfortune at Mr. McCormick's expense.