Everybody needs good neighbours. Photograph: Harold M Lambert/Getty ImagesThe disappearance of these kinds of interactions from day-to-day life – in pubs, restaurants, shops, queues, on public transport – is striking. I have been talking to people tangentially about this for the past 10 years, ever since I started researching my book, How to Own the Room, which came out in 2018 and went on to become a podcast. This project was supposed to be about public speaking and confidence. But I realised from people’s reactions to the topic – especially younger people – that their deepest anxiety lies elsewhere, in something much more banal and inexpressible. Forget “public speaking”. What a lot of people don’t like at all any more is “speaking to anyone in public”.
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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