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Baskerville effect
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English
Etymology
Named after the Baskerville family from Arthur Conan Doyle's crime novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Noun
en uncommon The alleged self-fulfilling prophecy that there is an increase in rate of mortality through heart attacks on days considered unlucky because of the psychological stress this causes on superstitious people.
en Hound of the Baskervilles effect
Further reading
en eponyms