What's so bad about Friday the 13?

Question

Always been a good day for me! It falls on my bday this year

Answer 1

Origins
The origin of the Friday the 13th superstition has been linked to the belief that there were 13 people at The Last Supper of Jesus, who was crucified on Good Friday, but no evidence has been found that Friday 13th was considered especially unlucky until the 19th century. The number 13, however, has a long history of association with ill-luck. It has been linked to the fact that a lunisolar calendar must have 13 months in some years, while the solar Gregorian calendar and lunar Islamic calendar always have 12 months in a year.

Another suggestion is that the belief originated in a Norse myth about twelve gods having a feast in the hall of the sea-god Aegir. The mischievous Loki gate-crashed the party as an uninvited 13th guest and arranged for Hod, the blind god of darkness, to throw a branch of mistletoe at Balder, the god of joy and gladness. Balder was killed instantly and the Earth was plunged into darkness and mourning as a result. This, however, is untenable. The original Old Norse text, the poem Lokasenna in the Edda, mentions 17 gods by name at the feast. Loki is indeed a gatecrasher, but he is not the thirteenth person present. Nor is there any link between this episode and the killing of Balder.

The first explanation, however, seems more relevant to the superstition linked to having 13 people at the same table during a meal. This, recorded at the end of the eighteenth century, is the earliest known instance of the ill-luck of 13 in Britain. The belief was that the first person to rise from the table would be the first to die.

There is also another theory that Friday the 13th of October 1307 was the day that Philip IV of France arrested and subsequenty tortured and killed hundreds of the French Knights Templar to get their money for the French treasury. This theory appears in the factcomic Uncle Scrooge and The Crown Of The Crusader Kings[1] by Don Rosa. One other note which predates all of the aforementioned is that the first Passover seems to have occurred on Friday the 13th. The death of the firstborns of Egypt occurred on a Shabbat on the 14th of Nisan in the evening. But the Jewish calendar counts days from sunset to sunset so this would have been Friday the 13th in terms of the gentile reckoning of the days. (Exodus 12:6) Feminists have argued that because of the lunar year and Friday being named after a goddess in most European pagan calendars, the fear of Friday the 13th is a patriarchal invention, associating femininity with bad luck.

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Effects
Strangely, there is evidence to suggest that Friday the 13th is actually unlucky for some. Psychologists have found that some people are especially likely to have accidents or fall ill on Friday the 13th. This has been attributed to such people feeling a heightened state of anxiety on that day. The Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina estimates that in the United States alone, $800 or $900 million is lost in business each Friday the 13th because some people will not travel or go to work. [2]

The date is also well-known in the motorcycle (biker) community: since 1981, motorcycle enthusiasts and vendors gather every Friday the 13th in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada. This tradition started on November 13, 1981 by Chris Simons as a gathering of approximately 25 friends. The event has grown substantially, with an estimated 100,000 people attending in August 2004, as well as music bands, vendors, a bike show, etc.

In the Spanish-speaking world, it is Tuesday the 13th (as well as Tuesdays in general) that brings bad luck; a proverb runs En martes, ni te cases ni te embarques (on Tuesday, neither get married nor start a journey).

Answer 2

13 is actually a very symbolic number it is the number of transcendence 12 apostles and Jesus 12 zodiac signs and the sun 13 is the number that represents going beyond the here and trancends space and time 13 is a cool number

friday the 13 I think was the day the Knights templar were condemed by the pope as heretics

in many traditions that used a lunar calendar they had to inter calculate the 13th month don't sow on the 13 of any month goes back to Hesiod in The 8th century BC this is why the 13 became a symbol of bad luck
in central America where they had much better calendars I might add 13 was a sacred number 13 weeks in there religious calendar
SO your birth date is lucky unless your bad at math

Answer 3

OK the thing with friday the 13th. YOu hear of the knights templar? Welll in midevil europe they were a group of knights that had alot of land and money across europe and the middle east. well the french king at the time organized an attack on them at once across the world. with the aid of the cathiloc church. he planned the attack to take place on the 13th of oct (o think it's the right month) and that day JUST happened to be on a FRIDAY. So friday the 13th to some people was in fact rather unlucky.

Answer 4

Douglas and Rich both got the answer. The knights templar were simultaneously overrun on Friday the 13th. A french king brought down a vast empire....so bringing bad luck on that day from that day forward

Answer 5

there's a collection of superstition on the instantaneous is my Birthday i replaced into born precisely at 12midnight on Friday the 13 and that i do not position self belief in each and every of the hogwash that human beings make as a lot as make existence a lot less boring

Answer 6

some people are superstitious...That's all it is...ex,,,don't cross a black cats path on FRIDAY, THE 13th!!! There is even a movie about Friday the 13th!!! scary!!! back in the day...it was "known" as a bad luck day...Now adays it just depends on the person Viewing the day!!! your perception!!!

Answer 7

Not a thing. My mother was born on Friday the 13th. Happy birthday!

Answer 8

Freddy Krouger

Answer 9

two frat boys got drunk on friday the 13 th and they crossed a black cat walked under a ladder broke a mirror and then raped a goat then got a aressted

Answer 10

people just decided to be afraid of things like that during the Middle Ages