What is Friday the 13th?

Answer 1

The oldest explanation is related to the goddess Freya. The number 13 has to do with 13 witches in a convent, to keep it simple. Keep in mind that this relates to an old religion that honored nature as well as male and female deities and not Buffy or The Craft you may see on television. This way of life dates back to about 25000 BC according to some scholars. When Judeo - Christians decided to "kill" the myths of the goddesses, they indoctrinated the masses with all kinds of junk. It's a lucky day if you're a good person, so it's all in how you chose to see it.

Answer 2

Some people believe on Friday the 13th to be very unlucky where
-break a mirror 7 years of bad luck
-step on a crack break your mothers back

and a lot more...
I don't believe in these but I had a book that has facts on random things and it says 13 is unlucky but I don't have that book anymore sorry...I bet you could find a lot of facts online too!!!
But apparently it's lucky for me! On my laptop it has a problem and usually closes the internet when I'm in the middle of something in random times. It usually does this about 20 times a day. On Friday the 13th I don't even think it happened once! But when it was midnight a few minutes later it happened. Weird...

Answer 3

No historical date has been verifiably identified as the origin of the superstition. Before the 20th century, although there is evidence that 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 1900's.[1][2][3]

However, many popular stories exist about the origin of the concept:

The Last Supper which is supposed by popular Christian belief to have been on Thursday, with Judas numbered among the thirteen guests (Jesus plus his 12 apostles), and that the Crucifixion of Jesus which is supposed by popular Christian belief to have occurred on a Friday. However, Judas was not actually present for the latter part of the meal.
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).[4]
Friday 13th October 1066 was the last day of the reign of the Saxon King Harold II. On this day, William, Duke of Normandy offered Harold the option of ceding the crown; Harold declined the offer. The Battle of Hastings took place the following day (Saturday 14th October 1066). Harold was slain and William took control of England.
One theory, offered in the novel The DaVinci Code holds that it came about not as the result of a convergence, but a catastrophe, a single historical event that happened nearly 700 years ago. The catastrophe was the decimation of the Knights Templar, the legendary order of "warrior monks" formed during the Christian Crusades to combat Islam. Renowned as a fighting force for 200 years, by the 1300s the order had grown so pervasive and powerful it was perceived as a political threat by kings and popes alike and brought down by a church-state conspiracy, as recounted by 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 were 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."
Friday and 13 were both sacred to the Norse goddess Freyja, so Friday 13th was especially sacred. Christians who wished to suppress her worship said the day was unlucky.

Answer 4

Its considered a day of bad luck.

During the middle ages, the Catholic Church began to fear the Knight's Templar. The pope sent soldiers all throughout Europe, all of them told not to open their orders until Friday the 13th. When the soldiers opened the orders on the 13th, the orders told them to kill all of the people of the Knight's Templar they could find.

Ever since, Friday the 13th has been considered unlucky.

Answer 5

Why, it is the 13th day of the month, and it is on a friday! Anyway, it's considered 'bad luck' even though it seems to bring me good luck, lol.

Answer 6

Some people belive if you walk a passed a black cat on Friday the 13th you'll get bad luck and same if you brake a mirror, some people think if you brake a mirror you'll get 7 years odf bad luck and people also belive if you walk under a latter or if you spill over salt you'll also get bad luck, but some people don't belive in the stuff yet some people do.

Answer 7

Friday the thirteenth is considered by the supersticious the the most unlucky day of all.

It is also the date when the Knights Templar were executed by the Roman Catholic Church.

Answer 8

most peple say that it is th unlukiest day.this is the day that is supossed to be bad luck.friday th 13 is sometimes a myth.but sometimes bad luck happens.people say that not to go to school or go outside and all that because it is friday the 13th.

Answer 9

To normal people its another day of the week. to superstitious people its a day to constantly look over your shoulder and pay anal attention to everything that goes on around them.

Answer 10

just another day in the week between the 12th and the 14th of whatever month it happens to be.