Which lighters are unlucky

He imagines a similar trail of events leading to the construction of the white BIC lighter myth. Photographs from the Seattle Police Department show Cobain had two lighters in close proximity to him on the day of his death, neither of which were white.

Why, then, did this association that never even existed gain such momentum? The key to a budding superstition in the culture is, per Saucier, dependent on the strength of the event it was associated with. This explanation also explains how the other, somewhat more permissible origins of the white lighter myth came to be a signal of something eerie on the horizon. There is a way to mend this ostensible glitch in the matrix of your mind with regard to the white lighter, though.

Especially if you still rely on a drug dealer to unite you with your herb. According to a set of photographs released by the Seattle Police Department in , Cobain had two lighters in close proximity to him on the day of his death. However, neither of those lighters was in his pocket, and neither was white.

One multi-colored lighter was discovered in his heroin kit, and another lighter that appears distinctly pink in photographs was found nearby:. Therefore, no autopsy report ever existed to document the presence of a lighter found near his body or in his clothing, as claimed. Fact Checks. False About this rating. This rumor was summed up in a post on High Ideas as follows: Everyone knows that white lighters are Bad Luck.

Top Fact Checks. View all. Most Searched. Time to expose the origins of this myth. Back in , when the first Bic disposable lighter was introduced, it was only available in two colors.

Black and White. Back then the entire lighter was one solid color, unlike today where no matter the color of the lighter, the bottom is white. So when using a black lighter to smoke pot, the ash from packing the bowl down would not be visible. Unlike the white lighter that would show "evidence of illicit drug use" that's the excuse the cops would use to detain you. Nowadays all lighters have a white bottom piece, so no one color should be considered bad luck. Now that being said I still believe in the White Lighter Myth, simply because the only time I've ever possessed a white Bic lighter I had a string of bad luck.

A friend had left a white lighter in my car, so used it to light a cig, not five minutes later I get rear-ended. To add insult to injury my bong was in the trunk and had been completely destroyed by the accident.