what's the deal with "Friday The 13th"?

Question

why is it a bad luck day or a special day in that case?

Answer 1

to me, it is just another day when the crazies come out just because of the stupid urban legends... people "make" the legends come true...

but read these because the theories are rather complex and there are many.

Answer 2

A Friday occurring on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck in English and Portuguese-speaking cultures around the globe. Similar superstitions exist in some other traditions. In Greece and Spain, for example, Tuesday the 13th takes the same role. The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia, a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a phobia (fear) of the number thirteen.
Strangely, there is evidence to suggest that Friday the 13th is actually unlucky. 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.

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[citation needed]; a proverb runs En martes, ni te cases ni te embarques (on Tuesday, neither get married nor start a journey).

Answer 3

The reasons why Friday came to be regarded as a day of bad luck have been obscured by the mists of time — some of the more common theories link it to a significant event in Christian tradition said to have taken place on Friday, such as the Crucifixion, Eve's offering the apple to Adam in the Garden of Eden, the beginning of the Great Flood, or the confusion at the Tower of Babel. Chaucer alluded to Friday as a day on which bad things seemed to happen in the Canterbury Tales as far back as the late 14th century ("And on a Friday fell all this mischance"), but references to Friday as a day connected with ill luck generally start to show up in Western literature around the mid-17th century

Just as Friday was considered an inauspicious day of the week on which to embark upon a new enterprise, so the 13th day of a month came to signify a particularly bad day for beginning a venture. Although regarding the confluence of a particularly unlucky day of the week (Friday) and a particularly unlucky day of the month (the 13th) as a date of supreme unluckiness might seem to be obvious and inevitable, superstitions regarding Friday the 13th are not nearly as old as most people tend to think. The belief in Friday the 13th as a day on which Murphy's Law reigns supreme and anything that can go wrong will go wrong appears to be largely a 20th century phenomenon. (The claim that the Friday the 13th superstition began with the arrest of the final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques Demolay, on Friday, October 13, 1307, is a modern-day invention.)

Answer 4

First of all, the Templars were not crucified--in the Western world this from of execution went out in late Roman times. Most of the Templars were burned at the stake as heretics.

The connection between the Templars and Friday the 13th is because Philip IV (known also as Philip the Fair because of his good looks) ahd designated October 13--a Friday--as the day that he and his supporters would move against the Templars and their property. Since the Templars were, in essence, the bankers of Europe, there was plenty to be gained from this scheme.

Friday, with its connection to the crucifixion of Jesus, has long had a bad reputation, and the number 13 is also held as unlucky, in part because Jesus and his twelve apostles celebrated the Passover meal together--making 13 at the meal, one of whom was a traitor.

For me, though, any day that I don't see my obituary in the paper is a lucky one--even Friday the 13th.

Answer 5

Okay, here's the answer:
Christ and his disciples had the Last Supper on Good Friday (Friday the thirteenth, get it?).
Through the medevil times, this tranformed to a superstition of any Friday the thirteenth, any seating of thirteen people at a table, and the number 13 in general. The superstition was re-enforced by various events (like the Knight Templar massacre).
The superstition remains today, but greatly reduced.

Answer 6

Friday the 13th has to do with the Knights Templar who were blamed as heretics by a greedy king who wanted there fortune. The king sent out letters on Frday the 13th to alot of people, the letters were to be opened on the 13th. People then set out to kill the Knights Templar.

Answer 7

I never knew there was any real event attached to the superstition it is a BAD LUCK day, like a black cat crossing your path, walking under a ladder and so on. I take it in good fun,as in, "oh no, the dreaded Friday the 13th" !

Answer 8

I would say it's just the same as any other day. Would it be Wednesday the 8th and it's your bad luck day... then it's your bad luck day. It's just the same thing as chinese people with the number 4. It means nothing if YOU don't give a special meaning to it. It's kind of suggestive from my point of view.

Answer 9

that has to do with the Knights Templar, when they were cruxcifixed (if I spelled that right, anyway) on 13th of October on Friday. The Da vinci Code by Dan Brown mentions this, but I'm not too sure about the origin either.

Answer 10

Aside from the historical references...it was also the beginning of slasher movies, conveniently named "Friday the 13th." You know...psycho Jason with the mask coming to get the innocent people freaking out in the house that just lost electricity. Just when you think you're safe...is that a chainsaw??! Don't watch unless you want those images in your brain permanently.

Answer 11

according to the legend of the Knights Templar, Friday the 13th is the day on which these "keepers of Christianity" were massacred somewhere in the middle east. they feed us such bull$h!t.