Show A superstition at race tracks persons desiring to bet on the result frequently manage to touch the hump of a hunchback believing that this will bring good luck according to the beliefs of ancient arabians and germans hunchbacks hunch backs were the pets of fairies the latter frequently removed or increased the humps and who had thus been treated by the fairies were supposed to possess some mystic power they were supposed to bring luck and this might be imparted to persons who came into contact wilh the humps the fairies had given them |