A widely held view is that it comes from Friday 13th October 1307, which is when hundreds of the Knights Templar were arrested by the king of France.
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Although superstitions about Fridays and the number 13 go back to the middle ages, it wasn’t until the 19th century that someone put the two together.
On Friday, an estimated 60 million people across the planet will start to stress out due to friggatriskaidekaphobia, the fear of Friday the 13th.
If you are superstitious, today is the day you dread the most. People are much more likely to remember something bad happening on an “unlucky” day.
It’s here again… Friday the 13th.
It has been speculated that the number 13 may have been purposely vilified by the founders of patriarchal religions in the early days of western civilization because it represented feminism.
Friday the 13 (board game – NOT related to the film franchise) – 3-6 players must try to avoid bad luck in the 30 minute card-centric game. Even relatively small differences attributable to being born on an unlucky day could have large impacts over one’s life time. There are some serious superstitions involved in Friday the 13th, according to International Business Times.
Numerologists consider 13 to be discordant or unwhole number, since it follows the number 12, which is regarded as a historic pairing number, i.e. the 12 gods of Mount Olympus, or the 12 tribes of Israel.
Others say it was the 1907 novel by Thomas W Lawson called Friday, the Thirteenth, which spread the fear as in the book a stock broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on Friday the 13th.
Dr Fidrmuc added “Triskaidekaphobia, the scientific name for the phobia of the number 13, has real world financial consequences which as economists concern us”. It detailed an evil business’s attempts to crash the stock market on the unluckiest day of the year. In the movie, a group of camp counselors is stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant on Friday the 13th, while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child’s drowning.
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Mumbai: Some people are extremely superstitious about certain things. Friday, May 13 is the only Friday the 13th this year.
