I think that I heard it has something to do with the frech church?
2006-10-13 05:01:29 · 24 answers · asked by Eliran Kaissar 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Friday the 13th is an unlucky day in much of Western Europe, North America, and Australia. Many people avoid travel and avoid signing contracts on Friday the 13th. Floors in tall buildings often skip from 12 to 14. And while the superstition is believed to be fading, it nonetheless has deep roots in both Christian and pagan culture.
The Day Jesus Was Crucified?
Many Christians have long believed that Friday was unlucky because it was the day of the week when Jesus was crucified. The number 13 was believed to bring bad luck because there were 13 people at The Last Supper. Since there were 12 tribes of Israel, that number was considered lucky.
Roots in Norse Mythology
Thirteen was also a sinister number in Norse mythology. Loki, one of the most evil of the Norse gods, went uninvited to a party for 12 at Valhalla, a banquet hall of the gods. As a result, he caused the death of Balder, the god of light, joy, and reconciliation. Loki tricked Balder's blind brother, Hod, into throwing a sprig of mistletoe at Balder's chest. Since mistletoe was the only thing on Earth fatal to Balder, the beloved god fell dead.
Literature and Folk Wisdom
During the Middle Ages, the superstition against Friday the 13th grew. On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrests of Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templars and sixty of his senior knights in Paris. Thousands of others were arrested elsewhere in the country. After employing torture techniques to compel the Templars to "confess" to wrongdoing, most were eventually executed and sympathizers of the Templars condemned Friday the 13th as an evil day. Over time a large body of literature and folk wisdom have reinforced the belief. In the 18th century, the HMS Friday was launched on Friday the 13th. It was never heard from again. Since then, ships are not usually launched on that date.
2006-10-13 07:42:35 · answer #1 · answered by samanthajanecaroline 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A significant piece of the legend is a particularly bad Friday the 13th that occurred in the middle ages. On a Friday the 13th in 1306, King Philip of France arrested the revered Knights Templar and began torturing them, marking the occasion as a day of evil.
Both Friday and the number 13 were once closely associated with capital punishment. In British tradition, Friday was the conventional day for public hangings, and there were supposedly 13 steps leading up to the noose.
Ultimately, the complex folklore of Friday the 13th doesn't have much to do with people's fears today. The fear has much more to do with personal experience. People learn at a young age that Friday the 13th is supposed to be unlucky, for whatever reason, and then they look for evidence that the legend is true. The evidence isn't hard to come by, of course. If you get in a car wreck on one Friday the 13th, lose your wallet, or even spill your coffee, that day will probably stay with you. But if you think about it, bad things, big and small, happen all the time. If you're looking for bad luck on Friday the 13th, you'll probably find it.
2006-10-13 05:10:30 · answer #2 · answered by reesie271 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Friday the 13th is a day fraught with peril.
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.
2006-10-13 05:12:04 · answer #3 · answered by Princess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mostly superstition. But Snopes says the following:
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
2006-10-13 05:11:28 · answer #4 · answered by ezgoin92 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Church cracked down on the Knights Templar order on a Friday the 13th. It has been a date filed with dread ever sense.
2006-10-13 05:13:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-19 08:06:07 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was the day around the 14th century, when the pope had heretics across Europe, mainly the Knights Templar, murdered.
2006-10-13 05:45:49 · answer #7 · answered by R S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
king philipe the something king of france ordered the templar knights to be killed and since then it has been known as a bad day because the templar knights were working with God or something like that.
2006-10-13 05:05:45 · answer #8 · answered by Dulceata 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The arrest of the senior officers of the Knights Templar. Google it!
2006-10-13 05:04:28 · answer #9 · answered by Jim P 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Friday the 13th is the day Jesus was crucified.
2006-10-13 05:03:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋