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When you feel you’re in the grip of a ‘jinx’, or jinxed, you’ve succumbed to a superstitious belief that bad luck is on the cards or that a spell of some sort has been cast on you. The word is thought to come from iunx, the Greek word for the wryneck bird. This species was very much bound up with superstition and witchcraft simply because of the way it behaves when in the resting position, staring and twisting its neck slowly, as if very suspicious.