Friday the 13th
Is there such a thing: a bad luck day...?
Happy Friday the 13th! ^__^ So to all of you people that are paranoid normally don't worry because now you have an excuse. Nearly everyone in this day is superstitious in one way or the other.
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So how did Friday the 13th become such an unlucky day?
(In a site I found this.)
Dossey, also a folklore historian and author of Holiday Folklore, Phobias and Fun, said fear of Friday the 13th is rooted in ancient, separate bad-luck associations with the number 13 and the day Friday. The two unlucky entities ultimately combined to make one super unlucky day.
Dossey traces the fear of 13 to a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party at Valhalla, their heaven. In walked the uninvited 13th guest, the mischievous Loki. Once there, Loki arranged for Hoder, the blind god of darkness, to shoot Balder the Beautiful, the god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow.
"Balder died and the whole Earth got dark. The whole Earth mourned. It was a bad, unlucky day," said Dossey. From that moment on, the number 13 has been considered ominous and foreboding.
There is also a biblical reference to the unlucky number 13. Judas, the apostle who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th guest to the Last Supper.
Meanwhile, in ancient Rome, witches reportedly gathered in groups of 12. The 13th was believed to be the devil.
Thomas Fernsler, an associate policy scientist in the Mathematics and Science Education Resource Center at the University of Delaware in Newark, said the number 13 suffers because of its position after 12.
According to Fernsler, 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, Fernsler said 13's association with bad luck "has to do with just being a little beyond completeness. The number becomes restless or squirmy."
This fear of 13 is strong in today's world. According to Dossey, more than 80 percent of high-rises lack a 13th floor. Many airports skip the 13th gate. Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13.
On streets in Florence, Italy, the house between number 12 and 14 is addressed as 12 and a half. 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, as those who fear the unlucky integer are known, point to the ill-fated mission to the moon, Apollo 13.
As for Friday, it is well known among Christians as the day Jesus was crucified. Some biblical scholars believe Eve tempted Adam with the forbidden fruit on Friday. Perhaps most significant is a belief that Abel was slain by Cain on Friday the 13th.
As you can see many people are indeed superstitious. And some even find items for good luck especially on this day... others try to avoid anything that has to do with bad luck by what they have heard. But who is to say if this is real or not. Who is to say what is bad or good luck. Even more who is to say that such as thing as "luck" exist?
The world works in many weird and strange ways. Ways that we can't explain. So we must often go to the past and learn or grow into it, it is in our primitive ways to learn like that.
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I had my own set of bad luck! ^^ But… >.> I am not that superstitious about it. I believe it was a coincidence. But who knows, sometimes I just don’t believe in coincidence, but that goes also with luck.
Today was supposed to be my honor roll, I wasn’t going to begin with and since the beginning I started to say that it was going to be on Friday the 13th and that everyone should watch out, but I only said it kidding. And then what happens? It gets suspended like three days ago, because the teacher that was to take care of this did had enough money for the food. And I bet it would have gotten suspended today because of the rain.
Today it started to rain a lot, way too much and all of a sudden, since it was non-cloudy one minute and in the next-I felt that I was in the afternoon, and the afternoon of today was shinier than the morning! So imagine all the people that had bad luck, all the people that had their houses flooded and their cars, clothes or whatever they own damaged. There was a concert tonight at church and I really wanted to go, but I couldn’t because of the rain and I didn’t had transportation by car, so I was going to walk there but since it is raining right now and all day I knew that it isn’t a good idea to walk.
But otherwise getting my socks, shoes and pants and even my shirt dirty! >< Because afterwards I went to buy some things, and one of it was a big bottle of soda and it had like weird sticky things on it and well it stained my shirt. >>; And can’t forget the not going to the concert, that I really wished to go to see someone and to spend a great time. I didn’t had such a bad time today… yes other bad things happened, family things, but they are normal things that happen nearly every day.
I have worse days other than this one, but with the Friday thing… I had such bad days on Friday in the past come to think of it… >.>;
Hehe, anyways take care everyone! And watch out the day hasn’t finished just yet. =P
~Julie
Happy Friday the 13th! ^__^ So to all of you people that are paranoid normally don't worry because now you have an excuse. Nearly everyone in this day is superstitious in one way or the other.
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So how did Friday the 13th become such an unlucky day?
(In a site I found this.)
Dossey, also a folklore historian and author of Holiday Folklore, Phobias and Fun, said fear of Friday the 13th is rooted in ancient, separate bad-luck associations with the number 13 and the day Friday. The two unlucky entities ultimately combined to make one super unlucky day.
Dossey traces the fear of 13 to a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party at Valhalla, their heaven. In walked the uninvited 13th guest, the mischievous Loki. Once there, Loki arranged for Hoder, the blind god of darkness, to shoot Balder the Beautiful, the god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow.
"Balder died and the whole Earth got dark. The whole Earth mourned. It was a bad, unlucky day," said Dossey. From that moment on, the number 13 has been considered ominous and foreboding.
There is also a biblical reference to the unlucky number 13. Judas, the apostle who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th guest to the Last Supper.
Meanwhile, in ancient Rome, witches reportedly gathered in groups of 12. The 13th was believed to be the devil.
Thomas Fernsler, an associate policy scientist in the Mathematics and Science Education Resource Center at the University of Delaware in Newark, said the number 13 suffers because of its position after 12.
According to Fernsler, 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, Fernsler said 13's association with bad luck "has to do with just being a little beyond completeness. The number becomes restless or squirmy."
This fear of 13 is strong in today's world. According to Dossey, more than 80 percent of high-rises lack a 13th floor. Many airports skip the 13th gate. Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13.
On streets in Florence, Italy, the house between number 12 and 14 is addressed as 12 and a half. 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, as those who fear the unlucky integer are known, point to the ill-fated mission to the moon, Apollo 13.
As for Friday, it is well known among Christians as the day Jesus was crucified. Some biblical scholars believe Eve tempted Adam with the forbidden fruit on Friday. Perhaps most significant is a belief that Abel was slain by Cain on Friday the 13th.
As you can see many people are indeed superstitious. And some even find items for good luck especially on this day... others try to avoid anything that has to do with bad luck by what they have heard. But who is to say if this is real or not. Who is to say what is bad or good luck. Even more who is to say that such as thing as "luck" exist?
The world works in many weird and strange ways. Ways that we can't explain. So we must often go to the past and learn or grow into it, it is in our primitive ways to learn like that.
~
I had my own set of bad luck! ^^ But… >.> I am not that superstitious about it. I believe it was a coincidence. But who knows, sometimes I just don’t believe in coincidence, but that goes also with luck.
Today was supposed to be my honor roll, I wasn’t going to begin with and since the beginning I started to say that it was going to be on Friday the 13th and that everyone should watch out, but I only said it kidding. And then what happens? It gets suspended like three days ago, because the teacher that was to take care of this did had enough money for the food. And I bet it would have gotten suspended today because of the rain.
Today it started to rain a lot, way too much and all of a sudden, since it was non-cloudy one minute and in the next-I felt that I was in the afternoon, and the afternoon of today was shinier than the morning! So imagine all the people that had bad luck, all the people that had their houses flooded and their cars, clothes or whatever they own damaged. There was a concert tonight at church and I really wanted to go, but I couldn’t because of the rain and I didn’t had transportation by car, so I was going to walk there but since it is raining right now and all day I knew that it isn’t a good idea to walk.
But otherwise getting my socks, shoes and pants and even my shirt dirty! >< Because afterwards I went to buy some things, and one of it was a big bottle of soda and it had like weird sticky things on it and well it stained my shirt. >>; And can’t forget the not going to the concert, that I really wished to go to see someone and to spend a great time. I didn’t had such a bad time today… yes other bad things happened, family things, but they are normal things that happen nearly every day.
I have worse days other than this one, but with the Friday thing… I had such bad days on Friday in the past come to think of it… >.>;
Hehe, anyways take care everyone! And watch out the day hasn’t finished just yet. =P
~Julie