The bringer of bad luck

Answer 1

"Doom, despair and agony on me. If it weren't for hard luck, I'd have no luck at all. Doom, despair and agony on me!"

Regular song featured on Hee-Haw.

For Oedipus Rex it was Fate that was the bad luck and an Oracle that was the bringer. And what bad luck, indeed. Poor Oedipus, fled his hometown in a vain attempt to avoid killing his father and marrying his mother. But...as fate would have it..the parents he left behind, and unbeknown to Oedipus, were his adoptive parents. On the road to escaping his fate he meets a testy man who claims he's king and Oedipus decides he doesn't like him much and kills him. Turned out the old coot was king and left behind a beautiful widow of whom Oedipus married. Yup, you guessed it, the old coot was his father, the widowed queen his mother. Doom, despair and agony on me!

For Julius Caesar, the bringer of bad luck was the ides of March, for it was during this time that a dozen Roman Senators, including Caesars closest friends, quite literally stabbed him in the back and left him there to die on the Senate floor. Doom,, despair and agony on me!

For many people it is a curse that brings them bad luck, but as luck would have it, it turns out that luck isn't necessary in order to live a fruitful and prosperous life and when you find yourself in a dire predicament hoping for luck, it is only because you lack a better idea. What luck! To make our own luck!! Oh yes, lucky indeed.