Is Friday the 13th a Superstitious belief or a day of unluckiness?

Question

1. What is the origin of this belief?
2. Is 13 unlucky due to the fact that 666 and the beast is in the 13th chapter of revelations?
3. What is the fear of "Friday the 13"?
4. Why friday? Why 13?
5. Is this a kind of Pseudoscience?

Answer 1

1. The salem witch trials
2. 12 witch's and one high priestess in total where burned
3. It was on friday the 13th
4. Friday the 13th is usualy a blood moon
5. It is a gypsy religion and an urban legend.

Answer 2

1) This belief originated from other myths, one for example is that on a 13th day which fell on a friday, the Romans began the slaying of Christians. Some say it was on a 13th Friday when the Salem Witch hunts began. Another would be the brutal murders ordered by Queen Mary during her reign. Which one exactly is indefinite...

2) No, 13 is not unlucky. Having 666 and the beasts on the 13th chapter is merely coincidental. 13 is believed to be unlucky because of universal pattern, 3 is a stable number because is represents a triangle; all numbers after the number 3 was considered cursed and unlucky during ages of the Salem Witch Hunts. Again, by coincidence, 13 was the most popular.

3) The common belief why many fear Friday 13th is that it will be very unlucky on that day and that the spirits of the underworld are very active and will posses people who are not "protected"

4) Go to 1 and 2, but urban legend says that all the madness happens on friday.

5) Yes, very much... It is a Pseudoscience

Answer 3

I thought you may enjoy this, it is an extension of one of my previous answers involving the number 13. I believe all the hype about the number 23, is mainly revolved around pop culture and the movies, although I may be wrong on that point.

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 Valhalla. 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. Both the first and last explanations, however, seem more relevant to the superstition linked to having 13 people at the same table during a meal. There is also another theory that Friday the 13th of October 1307 was the day that Philip IV of France arrested hundreds of the French Knights Templar to get their money for the French treasury. 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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So what is some of the facts behind these superstitions? Well, first of all, let’s distinguish between two fears:

1) Tridecaphobia – fear of the number 13

2) Paraskevidekatriaphobia – fear of Friday the Thirteenth

The first one, Tridecaphobia, stems from people who just plain hate the number 13. Period. They will go to all extents to avoid the number. I know a few of these people, and sometimes it gets to be quite annoying. One person in particular that I know is unbelievably superstitious. He won’t write a check out if it has the number 13 on it. He purposely avoids being thirteenth in anything. 13 does not exist for him. 12 then 14 does, but not 13. It’s not part of his vocabulary. Extreme, yes, but he has a phobia, after all.

Paraskevidekatriaphobia—don’t even ask me to pronounce it, but it’s quite real. People who have this fear will not go out of their house on that day (Friday the 13th), avoid sharp objects on that day—just avoid it all together. The whole day just doesn’t exist on their calendar.

Answer 4

Most say 13 is unlucky because of Judas being the 13th at the Last Supper.
Triskadecaphobia is the word.
We called our 13th Duckon Convention TriskaDUCKaphobia. Fear of the 13th duck.
Probably Friday because Christ died on a Friday.
Yeah this is all pseudoscience.

Answer 5

1. The Norse goddess of love Freya and the Norse goddess of marriage Frigga we confused for each other and although Friday was named after Frigga ppl thought that it had been named after Freya, so when Freya was sentenced to the mountains as a witch, Friday became the witches Sabbath and ppl began to believe that on Friday 12 witches would go into the woods to meet the Devil to do evil, 12+1=13.
2. the Chinese and Egyptians thought of thirteen as a lucky # but the English found 12 to be a comfortable # and 13 was odd and unknown.
3. The moon occasionally turns blue or green, which naturally scared ppl back in the old days, and this always happens on the last moon or the thirteenth moon. hence the saying 'once in a blue moon'.
4. ^^^
5. i dont really know what you mean by this, but its just a lot of mistakes and bad conclusions drawn together to create a comical superstition.

Answer 6

I really hate number 13, ever since I have already considered friday 13th to be a very unlucky day.

Answer 7

I'm not sure but among other things I think it might have something to do with the Knights Templar. In any case it does not matter so much to me as I realize when it comes to numbers they are only lucky or unlucky as much as we give them power to be.

Unfortunately enough people buy into such superstitions it has created a cultural icon. This societal associate can be extremely difficult to shake, even for those of us that recognize its illusionary nature.

Answer 8

Er, I can't answer your questions about the origins, but the fear of Friday the 13th is paraskavedekatriaphobia.

Answer 9

Actually it stems back to the days of the Templar Knights, they were disbanded and arrested on Friday the 13th and that's where it all began. The King of France along with the Pope turned on them to seize their money and arrested them on trumped up charges and had them executed.

Answer 10

Just a stupid superstition. In high-rise hotels they don't have a 13th floor. Doesn't that make the 14th floor be the 13th floor?