why is Friday the 13th unlucky?

Answer 1

There is no reliable evidence that Friday the 13th was considered to be especially inauspicious before the late nineteenth century, though both Friday and the number thirteen were separately identified as negative. Because of this, attempts to explain the superstition with reference to historical events are speculative.

One proposed origin relates to the Last Supper. Judas, the thirteenth guest, was instrumental in the Crucifixion of Jesus, which happened on a Friday.

Other theories offered in relation to Friday suggest that Eve offered the apple to Adam on a Friday or the slaying of Abel happened on a Friday (though the Bible does not identify the days of the week when these events occurred).

It is also sometimes claimed that the superstition derived from the massacre of the Knights Templar on Friday October 13, 1307. King Philip IV of France ordered the destruction of the Templars, after having claimed that they were engaged in heretical practices. Philip sent letters to his forces all over the country with instructions to open that morning. The orders were simple - seek out and arrest all known members of the Knights, slaughter those that resisted, and capture Jacques DeMolay, the last known Grand Master of the Knights Templar.

Answer 2

Friday = Witches' sabbath
13 = Number of witches in a typical covent

Friday 13th = Lots of bad magic hanging around in the air because of those two factors.

That was the earliest reason.

Since then, the story of at least one religion has collaborated this as an unlucky day.

So technically, the Friday of any date is unlucky.
As is the thirteenth of a month, whatever day of the week that happens to fall upon.

It's just noticed more when it's both at once.

I personally think it's a silly superstiton though.

Answer 3

Friday occurring on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck in English, German 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 word that is derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Παρασκευή, δεκατρείς, and φοβία, meaning Friday, thirteen, and phobia respectively; alternate spellings include paraskevodekatriaphobia or paraskevidekatriaphobia) or friggatriskaidekaphobia, and is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a phobia (fear) of the number thirteen.

Answer 4

This goes back to 1309 when the pope and the French King conspired together to have the Knights Templar eliminated. Letters were sent out to troops with instructions that they were all to be opened at a certain time. On Friday 13Th October 1309 the Knights Templar were killed in their thousands In 1312 the order of the Knights Templar was disolved and declared extinct

Answer 5

I'll answer in two parts:

Fridays, for example, are hailed as a particularly significant day in the Christian tradition. Obviously, there is Good Friday, the day Jesus Christ was crucified. But according to Christian lore, Adam and Eve also supposedly ate the forbidden fruit on a Friday, the Great Flood started on a Friday, the builders of the Tower of Babel were tongue-tied on a Friday and the Temple of Solomon was destroyed on a Friday.

Of course, the Bible doesn't specifically note many these events occurring on Fridays and some of the tradition may have stemmed from the fact that pre-Christian pagan cultures hailed Friday as holy days. The word "Friday" is, in fact, derived from a Norse deity who was worshipped on the sixth day of the week and who represented marriage and fertility. Fridays in the early Norse culture were associated with love and considered a good day for weddings.

Over time, however, mythology transformed the Norse fertility goddess into a witch, and Fridays became an unholy Sabbath. Incidentally, the goddess' sacred animal was a cat, which may explain the legendary connection between witches and cats, as well as the superstition about black cats heralding bad luck.

In addition to the legendary significance of Fridays, the sixth day of the week also was execution day in ancient Rome and later Hangman's Day in Britain.

The number 13 also has mythological and religious symbolism.

Both the Hindus and Vikings reportedly had a myth in which 12 gods were invited to a gathering and Loki, the god of mischief, crashed the party and incited a riot. Tradition in both cultures holds that 13 people at a dinner party is bad luck and will end in the death of the party-goers.

Following in that vein, the Last Supper in Christian tradition hosted 13 people and one betrayed Christ, resulting in the crucifixion.

The number 13 also has been associated with death in other cultures. The ancient Egyptians, for example, believed life unfolded in 12 stages, and the 13th stage was death. The Egyptians considered death a part of their ultimate journey and looked forward to the spiritual transformation ‹ thus 13 was not an unlucky number in their culture ‹ but like so many others, the tradition warped through time and cultures, eventually associating the number 13 with a more negative and fearful interpretation of death.

It is also suggested the number 13 may have an unlucky connotation because of its association with the lunar calendar (there are 13 lunar cycles in a year) and with femininity (women have 13 menstrual cycles in a year).

Then, there's the event that ties the two superstitions together.

Though it's clear that superstitions associating Fridays and the number 13 with misfortune date back to the ancient times, some sources assign the precise origin of the black spot on the day itself, Friday the 13th, to a specific historical event.

It was on Friday, Oct. 13, 1307, that France's King Philip IV had the Knights Templar rounded up for torture and execution. The Knights Templar were an order of warriors within the Roman Catholic Church who banded together to protect Christian travellers visiting Jerusalem in the centuries after the Crusades. The Knights eventually became a rich, powerful and allegedly corrupt order within the church and were executed for heresy.

So, who knows?

The date may be forever cursed by one event that occurred nearly 700 years ago, or by a series of cosmic coincidences.

Or it may be a figment of human beings' collective imaginations.

Hope this answers it for you.

Answer 6

The day on which a corrupt Pope and a devious king, overthrew the Knights Templar. This is most likely the correct reason for the Friday the 13th phobia, as the day and date are historically correct, which is not so with Biblical accounts, where days and dates are notoriously missing.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

i have an answer for you!the correct is not Friday but Tuesday 13
why?
this is in the Greek history,during the Byzantine years.
on Tuesday 29 May 1453 02:00pm Greeks received the final attack in Constantinople(now Istanbul) by Turkish.Constantinople(now Istanbul) used to be the capital of the Byzantine (Greek) Empire for more than 5 centuries and that day(the turkish nation wasn't existing as nation,they moved to Mediterranean from the kingdom of Mongolia) they finally got the Constantinople's

the day was Tuesday and why 13? because the year 1453 is
1+4+5+3=13

Answer 9

It is all to do with the slaughter of the knights templar hundreds of years ago. The knights templar were like a christian army. In 1307 AD the pope and the king arranged for the Templars to meet with them for a "friendly" convocation in Paris, France. Instead, Grand Master Jacques Demolay was arrested on Friday, October the 13th, 1307 AD (Old Style). Seven years later, in 1314 AD, Jacques DeMolay was burned at the stake for the crime of church heresy.

Answer 10

I think Friday the 13th is a LUCKY day. I married the love of my life on Friday the 13th. (He has a hard time remembering dates. I figured if we got married on a Friday the 13th, he'd at LEAST remember the day of the month!)