While reading some news feeds coming from a page, I came across some “Freaky Facts About Friday the 13th”. This fear of Friday the 13th can be serious business, according to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, N.C., which, among other things, offers therapy to help people overcome their fear of the freaky friday. Their estimates suggest hundreds of millions of dollars, up to $900 million are lost due to people’s fear of flying or doing the business as usual that day, though that number isn’t backed up with other estimates.
Stock broker and author Thomas W. Lawson, in his 1907 novel “Friday the Thirteenth,” wrote of a stockbroker’s attempts to take down Wall Street on the unluckiest day of the month. Reportedly, stock brokers after this were as unlikely to buy or sell stocks on this unlucky day as they were to walk under a ladder, according to accounts of a 1925 New York Times article.
Mark Twain once was the 13th guest at a dinner party. A friend warned him not to go. “It was bad luck,” Twain later told the friend. “They only had food for 12.” Superstitious diners in Paris can hire a quatorzieme, or professional 14th guest.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is said to have avoided travel on the 13th day of any month, and would never host 13 guests at a meal. Napoleon and President Herbert Hoover were also triskaidekaphobic, with an abnormal fear of the number 13.
For pagans, 13 is actually a lucky number. It corresponds with the number of full moons in a year.
Why does the Friday the 13th superstition stick so firmly in minds? According to Thomas Gilovich, who chairs the department of psychology at Cornell University, *our brains are almost too good at making associations.
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“If anything bad happens to you on Friday the 13th, the two will be forever associated in your mind, and all those uneventful days in which the 13th fell on a Friday will be ignored,” Gilovich said in a statement.
Superstition maybe. I heard that for some reason, it has become unlucky day, a synonym for ill fortune. I tried to find out the origin but found many different theories proposed by the different people.
Also according to the source 2012 is a special one for Friday the 13ths: There are three of them: Jan. 13, April 13 and July 13. The dates fall exactly 13 weeks apart. That hasn't happened since 1984.
Also according to the source 2012 is a special one for Friday the 13ths: There are three of them: Jan. 13, April 13 and July 13. The dates fall exactly 13 weeks apart. That hasn't happened since 1984.
Someone told me that Friday is considered bad day in Christianity as Jesus was crucified on Friday and ascended to heavens on Sunday and therefore Sunday is important day in Christianity.
sawan ke maheene main jab kali ghataen chhati hain aur laRkiyan gaati hain ‘Amma mere bhayya ko bhejo ri ke sawan aya’.. in dino paRne wale Friday ko Black Friday kaha jata hai
