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Hi Kpkroy,

An old superstition says that if you cross your fingers (usually two fingers of the same hand) it will bring good luck. Example:"I don't know what I will get for my birthday but I am crossing my fingers that it will be a bicycle"

Military history includes many instances when soldiers, who fell into hands of the enemy were trotted out before photographers of propaganda - to create false image for purposes to trick audiences into believing that the prisoners were actually well-cared for., sympathized whit their or mere voluntarily denouncing the political police their home countries.

Likewise, military history includes many instance, in which such captured soldiers managed to inserted subtle and furtive signs into propagandistic images to express their defiance, to indicate that the information they were relaying was false or to signal that they were acting under duress.

The gesture of crossing one,s fingers is not unique to the military, of course, it is an ages-old symbol used to indicate that the finger-crossed does not mean what he is saying or is being compelled to act through coercion.

(A typical kiddie trick is to surreptitiously cross one's fingers behind one's back ) while making a promise, a token that supposedly shields the finger-crosser from the obligation of upholding the terms of his oath.

V.