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What I found is that written evidence for knocking on wood (and for the history of gesture as a whole) is remarkably sparse. In the Penguin Guide to Superstitions, folklorist Steve Roud offers a skeptical take on the provenance of knocking on wood due to the near total absence of written records about it:
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"I guess it's bittersweet that I'm the first one, the first woman, to get it," she told BBC News.
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The upshot: I struggle to imagine a process whereby an obscure English children’s game somehow inspired gestural customs in Georgia, Egypt, Russia, and Iran within less than a century. It seems more reasonable to me that these customs might instead originate in an ancient Mediterranean tradition of apotropaic magic, or charms intended to combat bad luck.