Origins of the Superstition Friday the 13th

Unlucky Friday Garden of Eden, Tower of Babel, Flood, Solomon’s Temple destroyed, & Crucifiction Pagan Rome—Execution Day (Later) Britain—Hangman’s Day Pagan/Pre-Christian Sabbath (so unholy unlucky, like trips, & enemies tied to witchcraft: “Witches’ Sabbath”) Black Friday, stock market crashes (1800s on) Unlucky to start trip, begin new projects

Friday Legends

Unlucky #13 #12 completeness #13 irregular, transgressing completeness Egyptian beliefs in stages of life/death Last Supper Primitive man, counting Patriarchal culture villifying women Hindus at dinner/Vikings at dinner

#13 Legends

Other Days Tuesday the 13th, Spanish cultures Tuesdays, Greek Fridays, Indonesian (Java)

13 as Lucky Chinese culture (Egyptian culture, during the pharoahs)

Frigg/Freya: Friday & 13 —from lucky to unlucky

DaVinci Code/Knights Templar

Combination Origin unclear & relatively modern (1900s) Might just be unlucky Friday & unlucky 13 = more unlucky day Popularity from book, Friday the 13th (stockbroker’s crash)

Phobia of Friday the 13th “friggatriskaidekaphobia” “frigga” (Frigga goddess/Friday) + “triskaidekaphobia” (fear of #13) Or “paraskevidekatriaphobia” “para” (Gr. Friday) + “dekatreis” (thirteen) + “phobia” (fear of)

Is it unlucky? Netherlands vs. England: different findings

America’s biggest superstition?