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    Friday the 13th

    Note here and personally not the superstitious type; never have been.

    That said googled the wiki this morning as to what the big deal is about Friday the 13th.

    Many, many years ago do recall a sort of "standstill" in a relatively nice day starting out seemingly productive....I asked that day why the "standstill" and the response was "don't you know; its Friday the 13th today" .

    According to folklorists, there is no written evidence for a "Friday the 13th" superstition before the 19th century. The earliest known documented reference in English occurs in Henry Sutherland Edwards' 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini, who died on a Friday 13th.



    He [Rossini] was surrounded to the last by admiring friends; and if it be true that, like so many Italians, he regarded Fridays as an unlucky day and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that on Friday 13th of November he passed away.

    One theory states that it is a modern amalgamation of two older superstitions: that 13 is an unlucky number and that Friday is an unlucky day.

    In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of divine organizational arrangement or chronological completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve hours of the clock day, the twelve deities of Olympus, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostles of Jesus, the 12 successors of Muhammad in Shia Islam, twelve signs of the Zodiac, the 12 years of the Buddhist cycle, etc., whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness. There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supper or a Norse myth, that having thirteen people seated at a table results in the death of one of the diners.

    Friday has been considered an unlucky day at least since the 14th century's The Canterbury Tales,and many other professions have regarded Friday as an unlucky day to undertake journeys or begin new projects.

    Christians commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus on the Friday before Easter.

    One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth, in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.

    Records of the superstition are rarely found before the 20th century, when it became extremely common. The connection between the Friday the 13th superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and in John J. Robinson's 1989 work Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry, and also in the Maurice Druon historical novel series: "The Accursed Kings" (French: Les Rois Maudits). On Friday, 13 October 1307, hundreds of the Knights Templar were arrested in France, an action apparently motivated financially and undertaken by the efficient royal bureaucracy to increase the prestige of the crown. Philip IV was the force behind this ruthless move, but it has also tarnished the historical reputation of Clement V. From the very day of Clement V's coronation, the king falsely charged the Templars with heresy, immorality and abuses, and the scruples of the Pope were compromised by a growing sense that the burgeoning French State might not wait for the Church, but would proceed independently. It is further said Jacques de Molay, Magister (Master of the Knights of the Temple) cursed King Philip IV of France and his descendants from his execution pyre. As he was about to be executed, he appealed “from this your heinous judgement to the living and true God, who is in Heaven”, warning the pope that, within a year and a day, he and Philip IV would be obliged to answer for their crimes in God’s presence. Philip and Clement V both died within a year of Molay’s execution. However, experts agree that this is a relatively recent correlation, and most likely a modern-day invention.

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    According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina, an estimated 17 to 21 million people in the United States are affected by a fear of this day making it the most feared day and date in history. Some people are so paralyzed by fear that they avoid their normal routines in doing business, taking flights or even getting out of bed. "It's been estimated that [US]$800 or $900 million is lost in business on this day". Despite this, representatives for both Delta Air Lines and Continental Airlines have stated that their airlines do not suffer from any noticeable drop in travel on those Fridays.

    In Finland, a consortium of governmental and nongovernmental organizations led by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health promotes the National Accident Day, which always falls on a Friday 13th.

    Rate of accidents

    The Dutch Centre for Insurance Statistics (CVS) on June 12, 2008, stated that "fewer accidents and reports of fire and theft occur when the 13th of the month falls on a Friday than on other Fridays, because people are preventatively more careful or just stay home. Statistically speaking, driving is slightly safer on Friday the 13th, at least in the Netherlands; in the last two years, Dutch insurers received reports of an average 7,800 traffic accidents each Friday; but the average figure when the 13th fell on a Friday was just 7,500."

    - Skipped the bean counting piece of the wiki here....- who pays attention to numbers these days anyways?...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th
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    The Origins of Unlucky Friday the 13th

    The Origins of Unlucky Friday the 13th

    By Jillian Rose Lim, Staff Writer | June 12, 2014 09:27am ET



    http://www.livescience.com/46284-ori...-the-13th.html




    Today, the phrase "Friday the 13th" rolls off the tongue, instinctively linked to bad luck, strange happenings and a hockey-masked murderer in a slasher flick of the same name. But before Jason Voorhees made his mark in 12 films about the infamous day, how did the superstition come to exist?

    No expert can verify the origins of Friday the 13th. But the first written references to its wickedness appear around the mid-19th century when William Fowler, a U.S. Army captain, founded the Thirteen Club — a group of 13 men in Manhattan devoted to proving the superstitions were false.



    The Club grew and at some point apparently included five former U.S. presidents as honorary members.


    The men gathered for the first time on Friday, Jan. 13, 1881, and their exploits — described in newspapers of the time — included walking under ladders, breaking mirrors and dining as a group in room 13.

    From that point on, more definitive references to Friday the 13th began to emerge. In 1907, British stockbroker Thomas Lawson wrote "Friday the 13th," a book about a rogue businessman's attempt to crash the stock market on that day. The book sold almost 28,000 copies in its first week, and this idea of a link between bad luck and a bad stock market continued throughout the 1920s.

    [13 Freaky Facts About Friday the 13th]

    But to truly deconstruct the day's connotations, folklore historians like Donald Dossey, author of "Holiday Folklore, Phobias and Fun" (Outcome Unlimited Pr, June 1992), suggest that Friday the 13th actually comes from two separate superstitions rooted in ancient history: the evil of the number 13 and the bad luck of Friday — each with a string of mythical narratives of their own.

    Thirteen is a loaded number in cultural, religious and mythic history. Nordic mythology tells a tale of the 12 gods gathering for a dinner party, when a 13th guest walked in uninvited. The guest was Loki, a mischievous, trickster god. Loki took his bow and arrow and shot Balder the Beautiful, a god who represents joy and gladness, the story goes. Balder's death brought darkness and mourning into the world — and possibly lent the concept of a dinner party with 13 guests a shade of misfortune.

    In Christianity, some believe that Judas — one of Jesus' 12 apostles — arrived as the 13th guest to the Last Supper. The next morning, it was Judas who betrayed Jesus, leading to his arrest and crucifixion.

    But some say the number 13 is also considered unlucky because of its place after the number 12. Thirteen is just "a little beyond completeness," Thomas Fernsler, a math and policy scientist at the University of Delaware who also goes by the name Dr. 13, told National Geographic last year. "The number becomes restless or squirmy," Fernsler added.

    That's because in numerology, or the study of the symbolism of numbers, 12 is associated with completeness: whole, perfect and harmonious, as seen in the 12 apostles, 12 Olympic Gods, 12 animals in the Chinese horoscope and 12 months in the Gregorian calendar. Thirteen — by default — is awkward, ungainly and odd.

    Friday's associations have a weaker background. It's been suggested that Friday carries certain meaning in Christian tradition. For example, as described in the creation story, Eve gave Adam the poisonous fruit that had them exiled from God's Garden of Eden on the seventh day of creation — Friday. It was on Friday that Cain killed his brother Abel in the myth of the two brothers. And it was Friday that Jesus was crucified, a day now known as Good Friday.

    Despite the ambiguity of its origins, the buzz around Friday the 13th continues. This June's Friday the 13th falls under a full moon; that kind of coincidence won't happen again until August 2049.
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      An old colleague of mine always had something bad happen to him at work on Friday the 13th. One time he lost REALLY important paperwork that cost his company a LOT. Another time part of the parking garage fell on his car. He broke his leg at work on a Friday the 13th. SO, he decided that he just wouldn't go in to work one Friday the 13th. He instead sat out by his pool. A neighbor kid was over and decided to fling the pool's skimmer lid like a Frisbee and it hit my friend in the mouth. He lost 4 teeth and the cut required over 40 stitches. The NEXT Friday the 13th he decided to stay INDOORS at home. He nearly cut his finger off trying to slice something. Bread I think. His LAST Friday the 13th he decided he would sit in his home office, have food delivered and surf the internet all day. His wife found him, dead on April 13, 1990 when she came home from work.
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        Wow.

        Yup; never really paid attention; such that today decided to look a bit to see what this was all about.

        Found another interesting article. It has a nice moon picture.

        Friday the 13th and a full moon can lead to real fears for some

        Published June 13, 2014 FoxNews.com




        If you’re a selenophobic— people who fear the moon— or suffer from friggatriskaidekaphobia—fear of Friday the 13th— you may not want to leave the house today.

        For the first time in nearly a century, there will be a full moon rising on Friday the 13th. And for some, superstitions of these two phenomena are very real.

        “In the U.S. there are millions and millions of people who just want to stay home and not take any chances on either one of these – Friday the 13th or a full moon – and here they are both together,” said Mike McKee, a psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

        Fear of Friday the 13th goes all the way back to medieval times, when it seemed like a lot of bad things — hangings and executions — occurred on Fridays, McKee said. The fear of the number 13 may derive from the 13 people who attended the last supper of Jesus.

        The words “lunatic” and “lunacy” come from the word “lunar,” the Latin word for moon. The June moon is also called the “Honey Moon” because of its color and the high number of weddings held this month.

        Some believe a full moon’s gravitational pull may also influence people’s behavior.

        “There are some people who really believe that it pulls water in the body the way it does tides in the ocean and that that somehow makes people behave oddly, or makes them more prone to accidents,” McKee said.

        However, many scientists have noted that the moon’s gravitational pool on the body is so exceptionally minor, you can’t even notice it. Additionally, there are tons of other gravitational forces – most notably from the Earth – that have a much stronger, more obvious effect on our bodies than the moon’s pull.

        Still, combining a full moon and Friday the 13th may be stressful for some, so if you are feeling anxious about today, your best bet is to attack it head-on.

        “All of these superstitions only have the power that you give them,” McKee said. “Otherwise, they are absolutely zero.”

        The next time a full moon rises on Friday the 13th will be in the year 2049.
        http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/0...ntcmp=features
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