HISTORY OF THIS MYTH
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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.
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“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.”
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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 13 is
an unlucky number and that Friday is an unlucky
day.
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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, twelve gods 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 . 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. However, experts agree that
this is a relatively recent correlation, and most
likely a modern-day invention.
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Phobia names and etymology.
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The fear of Friday the 13th has been called
friggatriskaidekaphobia (Frigga being the name of
the Norse goddess for whom "Friday" is named in
English and triskaidekaphobia meaning fear of the
number thirteen), or paraskevidekatriaphobia a concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví
(Παρασκευή, meaning "Friday", and dekatreís
(δεκατρείς, meaning "thirteen" attached to phobía
(φοβία, from phóbos, φόβος, meaning "fear". The
latter word was derived in 1911 [ citation needed ]
and first appeared in a mainstream source in 1953.
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Notable people who died on Friday the 13th
Person
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Sam Patch: 13 November 1829 [21]
Gioachino Rossini: 13 November 1868
Diamond Jim Brady: 13 April 1917
Sir Henry Segrave: 13 June 1930
Arnold Schoenberg: 13 July 1951
Martita Hunt: 13 June 1969
Lily Pons: 13 February 1976
Mickey Spillane: 13 May 1977
Hubert Humphrey: 13 January 1978
Ralph Kirkpatrick: 13 April 1984
Christopher Wilder: 13 April 1984
Benny Goodman: 13 June 1986
Gerald Moore: 13 March 1987
Chet Baker: 13 May 1988
Stuart Challender: 13 December 1991
Tupac Shakur: 13 September 1996
Jaime Garzon: 13 August 1999
Tony Roper: 13 October 2000
Julia Child: 13 August 2004
Tim Russert: 13 June 2008
Edwin Newman: 13 August 2010
Richard D. Zanuck: 13 July 2012
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Source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th

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I just remember that horror movie 'Friday the 13th'.