Can someone explain Friday the 13th?
2007-04-13 01:19:16 · 11 answers · asked by joshnya68 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Paraskevidekatriaphobics — people afflicted with a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th...
My curiosity was aroused by the question - and my li'l research turned up a lot of answers, about why "Friday the 13th" turned up to be such a bad day...
The following is an exerpt from an article from about.com (the links are given below)...
The history behind "Friday the 13th" is so interesting... Go through all four pages of the about.com article... Enjoy!
Katharine Kurtz in Tales of the Knights Templar (Warner Books: 1995):
"On October 13, 1307, a day so infamous that Friday the 13th would become a synonym for ill fortune, officers of King Philip IV of France carried out mass arrests in a well-coordinated dawn raid that left several thousand Templars — knights, sergeants, priests, and serving brethren — in chains, charged with heresy, blasphemy, various obscenities, and homosexual practices. None of these charges was ever proven, even in France — and the Order was found innocent elsewhere — but in the seven years following the arrests, hundreds of Templars suffered excruciating tortures intended to force 'confessions,' and more than a hundred died under torture or were executed by burning at the stake."
So finally...
"...we are guilty of perpetuating a misnomer by labeling Friday the 13th "the unluckiest day of all," a designation perhaps better reserved for, say, a Friday the 13th on which one breaks a mirror, walks under a ladder, spills the salt, and spies a black cat crossing one's path — a day, if there ever was one, best spent in the safety of one's own home with doors locked, shutters closed and fingers crossed."
2007-04-13 01:46:11 · answer #1 · answered by Silver 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before the 19th century, though the number 13 was considered unlucky, and Friday was considered unlucky, there was no link between them. The first documented mention of a "Friday the 13th" is generally listed as occurring in the early 1900s.many popular stories exist about the origin of the concept:# The Last Supper, with stories that Judas was the thirteenth guest, and that the Crucifixion of Jesus occurred Friday.
# That the biblical Eve offered the fruit to Adam on a Friday, and that the slaying of Abel happened on a Friday (though the Bible does not identify the days of the week when these events occurred).That it started on Friday, October 13, 1307, the date that many Knights Templar were simultaneously arrested in France, by agents of King Philip IV.
2007-04-13 01:28:57 · answer #2 · answered by Linda 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For some reason Friday develop into continuously the unlucky day in Europe. a deliver's captain could on no account think of of leaving port on a Friday - and you probably did no longer start up a house and tried to no longer end one on Friday - jesus develop into nailed on Friday. Friday is termed after Frigg, the Norse god of something. uncertain why his day could be unlucky, in spite of the undeniable fact that it develop into. Then 13 is unlucky by fact it in simple terms would not make any experience! 12 is a manufactured from 3 and four - and 3 and four are previous holy numbers - woman and male - and 12 is the marriage of those 2 numbers..... yet 13 in simple terms breaks all the guidelines.... besides, that's the way it form of feels to numerologists - that's nonsense - yet a lot of human beings look to have self assurance it. So once you prepare Friday and 13, you comprehend you get carry of hassle.
2016-12-29 06:55:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friday the 13th was considered unlucky for many reasons the most popular is the theory that it was the day in which 150 knights of the knights templar were burnt at the stake
2007-04-13 01:28:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know it was because of the Friday the 13th movies with Jason Vorhes. They rocked in the 80's
2007-04-13 01:24:40 · answer #5 · answered by Sexy T 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i was born on the 13th so my birthday falls on friday all the time and nothing bad has ever happened when it does, i think monday the 13th is worse because mondays suck!
2007-04-13 01:23:04 · answer #6 · answered by awecrap 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watch The Da Vinci Code it'll explain it all.
2007-04-13 01:31:09 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
something that happened on October 13, 1307-but I forgot what.
2007-04-13 01:22:06 · answer #8 · answered by buzyb 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I really don't know. Personally it's always been a good day for me.
2007-04-13 01:22:14 · answer #9 · answered by Julia Sugarbaker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-04-13 01:23:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋