Tourists believe NYC landmark delivers good fortune
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No bull! Tourists consider this downtown attraction’s golden genitals a good omen.
The Charging Bull statue was named one of the 10 luckiest destinations in the world this week by the fortune-telling experts of PsychicWorld.com.
But it might be the bull who’s getting lucky.
Tourists, fueled by social media trends, believe that rubbing or kissing the bull’s giant testicles provides wealth and good fortune.
“The Wall Street bull is the symbol of the power of the New York Stock Exchange,” tourist @juulianassantos posted to Instagram, with a picture of her kneeling beneath the animal’s posterior, attempting to wrap her hand around one of the bull’s giant good-luck gonads.
“I don’t know if this is true, but better make sure.”
The bull’s brass bollocks have been worn to a golden sheen over the years from being um, appreciated, so many times.
“Hold them golden balls like a champ!” @brianfonseca wrote on Instagram, alongside a photo of a ladyfriend rubbing her caboose up against the bull’s face. “You may kiss them, too!”
The giant bronze debuted in 1989, with the bull posed as if running uptown across a small cobblestone square at the end of Broadway, just north of Bowling Green, a short distance from Wall Street.
It’s No. 9 on the lucky list, joined by top-ranked Trevi Fountain in Rome, where fortune seekers throw coins into the water; and Blarney Castle, No. 5, in County Cork, Ireland, where bending backwards to kiss the stone yields the Irish gift of eloquence.
The top five also includes the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul; Hoover Dam at the Arizona/Nevada border; and the Charles Bridge in Prague. The Charging Bull ranked just ahead of Casa di Giulietta in Verona, Italy, to fill out the Top 10 luckiest locations.
The list was compiled using hard data, including online search volume, TripAdvisor reviews and Instagram hashtags.
The Charging Bull fared especially well in its Instagram visibility with 103,000 hashtags on the platform through Jan. 10, according to PsychicWorld.com.
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