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Originally posted by Very RustyMy birthday falls on one of those days...I say lucky.
This year Friday the 13th happens 3 times. There are 13 weeks in between each of the Friday the 13th's. Usually we get one or two friday the 13th's in one year.
Does this mean something? Will the world really come to an end? We already know that 13 is an unlucky number.
Originally posted by Great Big SteesHistory
My birthday falls on one of those days...I say lucky.
Rossini by Henri Grevedon
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:
Rossini was surrounded to the last by admiring and affectionate friends; Why Friday the 13th Is Unlucky
Consequently, 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 thirteen is an unlucky number and that Friday is an unlucky day.
With the aim of mapping "the relation between health, behaviour, and superstition surrounding Friday 13th in the United Kingdom," its authors compared the ratio of traffic volume to the number of automobile accidents on two different days, Friday the 6th and Friday the 13th, over a period of years.
Incredibly, they found that in the region sampled, while consistently fewer people chose to drive their cars on Friday the 13th, the number of hospital admissions due to vehicular accidents was significantly higher than on "normal" Fridays. Their conclusion:
"Friday 13th is unlucky for some. The risk of hospital admission as a result of a transport accident may be increased by as much as 52 percent. Staying at home is recommended."
Paraskevidekatriaphobics — people afflicted with a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th — will be pricking up their ears about now, buoyed by seeming evidence that the source of their unholy terror might not be so irrational after all. It's unwise to take solace in a single scientific study, however, especially one so peculiar. I suspect these statistics have more to teach us about human psychology than the ill-fatedness of any particular date on the calendar.
Originally posted by Very RustyYes it will come to an end. So you better spend all your money, lift all the weights you can and lets not forget to spam and troll your ass away before it's to late.
This year Friday the 13th happens 3 times. There are 13 weeks in between each of the Friday the 13th's. Usually we get one or two friday the 13th's in one year.
Does this mean something? Will the world really come to an end? We already know that 13 is an unlucky number.
