What are some things that makes Friday the 13th & Friday in general, an unlucky day?

Question

1. Christ was crucified on Friday the 13th.
2. God threw Adam & Eve out of the Garden of Evil on a Friday
3. There were 13 people at the Last Supper.
4. Friday was also Hangman's Day in Britain.
5. Friday was the execution day among the Romans.
6. Witches sometimes have groups of 13 known as covens.
7. Several mass murderers have 13 letters in their names (know of any?)
Do you have any examples I may have forgotten?

Answer 1

Yes. The last Grand Master of the once-powerful Order of Knights Templar, Jacques DeMolay, suffered his betrayal into the hands of the Church on Friday 13, October 1307. He was imprisoned and later executed by King Phillip the Fair, the French king who had conspired with the Vatican to remove DeMolay. Phillip and Pope Clement V had concluded that the Templars had become altogether too powerful.

Answer 2

In 1307 in the month of October, on Friday the thirteenth the Knights Templar's temples in France were raided and all Templars were arrested and the majority were killed there by bringing an end to the Knights Templar organization. That is where Friday the 13th originated. This was all done under the order of King Phillip and Pope Clement! The other things you have listed (aside from 3, 4 and 6) are unfounded and as for #6, a Coven is a group, not necessarily of 13. As for being unlucky, that is something man had put on the number and day. I have never found that date or day to be unlucky!

Answer 3

Actually, the reason that superstition exists:

"Upon the conclusion of the West's attempted conquest of the Holy Land for Christendom, the Templars still earned great revenues from their lands, minus the cost to arm knights for crusades. They were exceedingly wealthy and had more funds than any European monarch. France was in great debt to the Templar organisation, and its king, Philip le Bel grew increasingly jealous of the wealth of the Knights. In 1307, upon the death of the then Pope, he brought many charges against the knights, including heresy. It is for this day Friday 13th was come to be known as unlucky, for that was the day that Philip arrested, simultaneously, all the Templars in France in a carefully planned operation."

So there you are. Eastern cultures (without the Templar connection) have no notion that Friday the 13th is in any way unlucky.

Answer 4

Don't forget Friday the 13th is when all those camp counselors keep getting killed by Jason.

Seriously, it's just a superstition, like breaking a mirror, and doesn't mean a thing. If you hear that more accidents and bad things happen on Friday the 13th, it's probably true. Not because day is bad luck, but because people THINK it is and the anxiety can cause people to have accidents. Personally Monday is my least favorite day.

Answer 5

Actually, "Friday the 13th" comes directly from the betrayal of the Knights Templar by the King of France and the Pope on Friday, October 13, 1307.

Answer 6

The thirteenth is somewhat historic and runs fairly around the day King Phillip the user-friendly ultimately killed the Templars ( like the da Vinci templars ). It has continually been an unlucky day when you consider that then. He substitute into called user-friendly for his seems and not his ideals. So in the experience that your called Phillip perhaps 13 could be your fortunate extensive type!

Answer 7

The Knights Templar were arrested on Friday the 13th

Answer 8

Friday the 13th is merely a day on the calendar and the Friday itself merely one day out of seven. The only way it is lucky or unlucky is if people read silly superstition into them and assign them as such.

Answer 9

Actually the origins of it are usually traced to the day that the King of France persecuted the Knights Templar.

Answer 10

13, in God's system is a rebellious number. this country was founded on that number. Look on the back of the one dollar bill. This country is represented by the son of Joseph, who is Manasseh, who is the 13 tribe.