Show opals bad luck the superstition regarding the op opals als bad luck began in the fourteenth century at the time of the black death particularly in venice at that time the opal was a favor favorite ite of the italian jewelers but it was said that opals worn by those stricken with the disease became suddenly brilliant and that their luster departed upon the death of the owner aithus thus the opal became associated with death and an object of dread catic bugar approximately tons of cane sugar are processed in the V S annually |