for a cigarette and the latter lighting it three times (though with different matches) causing an enemy sniper to spot him, take aim and fire with each lighting. Bob in Stephen Chbosky's novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower says that you can't have three on a match because then they'd find you. Nas's song, "What Goes Around" from his album Stillmatic may reference the superstition in his extensive critique on the negativity prevalent in modern society, saying "You know, the usual, death comes in threes." It is far more likely that Nas is referring to the superstition that bad things (including deaths) come in threes. Eddie Bell, a character in Early Doors, a pub sitcom, blows out landlord Ken Dixon's match when he is third in line to have his celebratory King Edward cigar lit, much to Ken's chagrin. In the 2004 French film Clara et moi, Antoine associates this superstition with his girlfriend having been tested positive for HIV, since he lit her cigarette which was third in a row with the same matchstick and forbids his friend from doing so at another point in the film. The Alarm song "Third Light" from the album Declaration includes the verse: "First light: the sniper saw you / second light: took careful aim / third light: he pulled that trigger / on the gun / Dead dead dead." The Cold Shoulder (band) song "Third On A Match" is a song about a man hooking up with a woman after a night of drinking. She later claims she is "Third on a match". This reference marks the end of his care free single days (likely due to an unexpected pregnancy). The Foxing (band) song "Three on A Match" from the album "Dealer" (2015) is a direct reference to the superstition. Alt-country band Old 97s have a song called "Bad Luck Charm" on their album "Graveyard Whistling" (2017) which contains the lines "You might think I'm a hell of a catch // But lightin' my fire's like three on a match // And it's between the devil you and me." In Stephen King's 1986 novel 'It' during Eddie Kaspbrak's flashback scene in Chapter 7, the ten-eleven year old stuttering Bill Denbrough stopped his friend Richie Tozier from lighting a 3rd cigarette from the same match, saying, "The-The-Three on a muh-muh-hatch. B-Bad luh-luh-luck." In 2020 Netflix ran a movie starring Adam Sandler called