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Are you superstitious?
"Today is Friday the 13th. Twenty million Americans are feeling unlucky today — people who suffer from friggatriskaidekaphobia. It's a 99-year-old word made up of a combination of the Norse and Greek roots words for "fear" and "Friday" and "13."
Folklorists say that the phobia itself is a combination of two separate superstition-induced phobias — 13 is unlucky in much of folklore and so is Friday. Whenever the first day of a month is a Sunday, there's going to be a Friday the 13th that month.
The number 13 has been unlucky for a long time. Numerologists point out that 12 is a complete number in Judeo-Christian culture: There are 12 months in a year, 12 hours on a standard clock, 12 Apostles, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 days of Christmas, 12 eggs in a dozen, and so on. There's something unsettling, even repugnant, about going just a bit "beyond completeness" — that's how academic folklorists rationalize the superstition, at least. The vast majority of skyscrapers have no 13th floor, and room number 13 is missing from many modern hotels as well.
As for Friday, it's unlucky in a handful of ancient cultures. In Christianity, it's the day of Jesus' crucifixion.
There have been 12 films in the Friday the 13th series. The 13th is due out on Friday the 13th of July in 2012.
There are always the traditional folk remedies to ward off bad luck today: burning any socks with holes in them, or eating some gristle while standing on your head, or climbing to a mountaintop. And here's the good news: There's only one Friday the 13th this year and one next year. Some years can have up to three of them."
This year we're lucky, this is the only one. Do you have any good Friday the 13th stories or lore?
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Permalink Reply by Snagg on
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All of my good Friday the 13th stories were destroyed in a fire when my old computer exploded and gave me the trots. On a Friday the 13th.
Funny how that worked out. Thank god I'm not superstitious.
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Permalink Reply by Stir Young on
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Nope, I'm not superstitious....but I do wonder why today, a large bottle of dish soap I just bought at Meijer, tipped over on the back seat of my car today, with the top somehow open, and slowly drizzled down between the seat and door for about 20 minutes, until I noticed a sickly sweet smell., and stopped to investigate?
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Permalink Reply by Bob Stepp on
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You could sue Meijer's for malicious damage to a vehicle due to a faulty top on the bottle. Hell, while you're at it go for the manufacturer too. Let me know when you get a settlement so i can borrow some money to play the lottery.
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Bob, I'll take my proceeds and play the lottery first, and then I'll pass the profits on to you so you can play too!
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Permalink Reply by Aggie on
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Unlucky Friday the 13th goes back to the day the King of France ordered the arrest of the Knights of Templar with the Pope's blessing. Whom he owed alot of money to.
But a friend of mine received a new liver on Friday the 13th of Feb in 2009. She is still alive and kicking today.
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Please give her my regards, Aggie.
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Permalink Reply by Goldilocks46 on
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Aggie, please tell her I said hi. Thanks!
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