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How exactly do jinxes work?

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Okay, I have never been on a plane before. Not because I am opposed to it, just never had the opportunity.

Next week I may have to get on one for a business trip.

If I say out loud "Knowing my luck, the plane will crash." - that would be jinxing myself, right?

Does that apply if I only think it? What about write it? Or is it the saying out loud part that does the actual jinxing?

I'm not superstitious, so I am curious as to the mechanics of the whole thing.

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Well you already thought it AND wrote it and you probably say out loud what you're typing. So anyway my point is that you're already screwed.

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I think saying it out loud is actually a way to alleviate the jinx. It's when we think it without saying it,that our fears get control.Somehow just saying something seems to make it less......(at least that's what I think)
You're only jinxed if someone says "JINX! CANDY BAR JINX! YOU OWE ME A CANDY BAR!!!". Oh wait that's just if you say something the same time someone else says it then whoever says "JINX" jinxes the other person and they own them a candy bar. Phew...

I think that in your case it's like knocking on wood... is that being jinxed? Umm... basically I don't know. But there is a 1 in 8 million chance that you will die on that plane. I think you're DOOMED!