My little Jewishop

[Belwarrior]

Wow Chuck, this is strangely similar to the red string in judaism. I'm still trying to find more information about it, just out of curiosity.
The red string in Jewish culture is associated to the kabbalah. It symbolizes a circle around someone's life, a ward against evil eye and such. People wear it around the wrist, like an amulet.

I'm Hindu and we have a similar belief, supposedly the string will come off when ill fortune is over, mine is almost faded to pink (guess i'm on a long run of ill luck )