SUPERSTITIONS – YET SUPER DECISIONS

Numerologists consider 12 a “complete” number.
There are
12 Months in a year,
12 Signs of the Zodiac,
12 Gods of Olympus,
12 Labors of Hercules,
12 Tribes of Israel, and
12 Apostles of Jesus.
In exceeding 12 by 1,
13’s association with bad luck has to do with
just being a little beyond completeness.

HOW IS FEAR OF THE NUMBER 13 DEMONSTARTED?

On streets in Florence, Italy,
the house between number 12 and 14
is addressed as 12 and a half.
Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue
More than 80 % of high-rises lack a 13th Floor.
Many airports skip the 13th Gate.
Airplanes have no 13th Aisle.
Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13.
Italians omit the number 13 from their national lottery.
In France, socialites known as the quatorziens (fourteeners)
once made themselves available as
14th guests to keep a dinner party from an unlucky fate.
Many triskaidekaphobes (those who fear the unlucky integer are known),
point to the ill-fated mission to the moon, Apollo 13.
If you have 13 letters in your name,
you will have the devil’s luck .
Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer,
Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo
all have 13 letters in their names.

FRIDAY THE 13th

Fear of Friday the 13th is rooted in ancient by
separating bad-luck associations
with the number 13 and the day Friday.
The two unlucky entities combine to make
one super unlucky day.
There is a Biblical reference to the unlucky number 13.
Judas, the apostle who betrayed Jesus,
was the 13th guest to the Last Supper.
A particularly bad Friday the 13th occurred in the middle ages.
On a Friday the 13th in 1306,
King Philip of France arrested the revered Knights Templar and
began torturing them, marking the occasion as a day of evil.
In ancient Rome, witches reportedly gathered in groups of 12.
The 13th was believed to be the devil.
Both Friday and the number 13 were once closely associated
with capital punishment.
In British tradition, Friday was the
conventional day for public hangings,
and there were supposedly 13 steps leading up to the noose.
It is traditionally believed that Eve tempted Adam
with the apple on a Friday.
Tradition also has it that the Flood in the Bible,
the confusion at the Tower of Babel,
and the death of Jesus Christ
all took place on Friday.

FRIDAY

A bed changed on Friday will bring bad dreams.
Any ship that sails on Friday will have bad luck.
You should never start a trip on Friday or
you will meet misfortune.
Never start to make a garment on Friday
unless you can finish it the same day

GOOD FRIDAY

A child born on Good Friday and baptized on Easter Sunday
has a gift of healing.
If a boy, he should go into the ministry.
Cut your hair on Good Friday
to prevent headaches in the years to come
A person who dies on Good Friday will go right to heaven.
Shed no Blood on Good Friday, Work no Wood, Hammer no Nail.