Open Thread: Artifact

Hosted by a four-leaf clover

So the other day a friend of mine noticed something odd lying in the parking lot of his apartment building.  Going over to it, he realized it was a hardback book - and being a book lover, he felt it wasn't right for it to just lay out there like that, so he picked it up and brought it inside.

It turned out to be a first edition copy of A Time To Love And A Time To Die, by Erich Maria Remarque - a battered and slightly mildewed copy, so probably not worth a whole lot, but still pretty nifty.

And then he opened it.

And between EVERY SINGLE PAGE, dried and pressed, was a no-joke four-leaf-clover.  Every.  Page.

Now he and his roommate have it on a shelf in their living room, and give it wary glances as they walk past.  We're not entirely sure if it's some sort of magical artifact, or a cursed tome - but randomly stumbling across an entire book-full of four leaf clovers doesn't seem like it could be a coincidence!

Open thread!  Have you ever randomly found something that seemed like it was (or should be!) lucky or cursed or otherwise magic?  Strange coincidences?  Found a four leaf clover?  How would you test a book like this for luck or curses?  Has anyone read the book in question, and is it any good?

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