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Why Friday 13th Is An Unlucky Day by yusods(m): 10:14am On Sep 13, 2013
Friday The 13th!!
Today is Friday the 13th and i want to tell you all the reason why it is considered the most unlucky day in the world.
Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition.
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 one Friday 13th of November he died.
Several theories have been proposed about the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition.
One theory states that it is a modern amalgamation of two older superstitions: that thirteenis an unlucky number and that Friday is an unlucky day.
Re: Why Friday 13th Is An Unlucky Day by yusods(m): 10:15am On Sep 13, 2013
*.In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve hours of the clock, twelve gods of Olympus, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostlesof Jesus, the 12 successors of Muhammad in Shia Islam, twelve signs of the Zodiac, etc., whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness. There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supperor 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.
*. Friday is also the day when Jesus Christ was crucified, making it through folklore and adding to its unpopularity.
Re: Why Friday 13th Is An Unlucky Day by yusods(m): 10:17am On Sep 13, 2013
*.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 novelFriday, the Thirteenth, in which an unscrupulous brokertakes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Streetpanic 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 Codeand in John J. Robinson's 1989 workBorn in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry. 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.
Re: Why Friday 13th Is An Unlucky Day by yusods(m): 10:18am On Sep 13, 2013
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Re: Why Friday 13th Is An Unlucky Day by yusods(m): 10:19am On Sep 13, 2013
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. However, experts agree that this is a relatively recent correlation, and most likely a modern-day invention.
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