What is the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition?

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The Knights Templar was a brotherhood in the Middle Ages. They were said to be guarding the Holy Grail and had substantial power beacause they lent money to kings and the like. Some meant they had gotten too powerful and a secret order was issued to kill them off. (Like in Star Wars ep III) This happened on Friday 13th.

Also Jesus was killed on a Friday, and there were 13 at the table for the last supper.

Friday and thirteen are just connected with bad luck it seems. ;-)

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There is no such thing as bad luck!!!! Like if you're dribbling the basketball down the court and you start to think that you might screw up then usally you do screw up. If you start thinking about something bad it is more likely to happen and if you think that you have got good luck it is just the same as bad luck. When you start thinking that everything is going to go wrong on "friday the 13th" then usally it will. It is all in your head

Whether people are aware of it or not, many things that they do are linked with superstitious practices or beliefs, some having to do with deities or spirits.

For example, did you know that birthday observance has its origin in astrology, which attaches great importance to one�s exact birth date?

What about the birthday cake? It appears to be related to the Greek goddess Artemis, whose birthday was celebrated with moon-shaped honey cakes topped with candles.

Or did you know that wearing black at funerals was originally a ruse to escape the attention of evil spirits said to be lurking on such occasions? Some black Africans paint themselves white, and mourners in other lands wear unusual colors so that the spirits will not recognize them.

Besides these popular customs, people everywhere have their superstitions and fears. In the West, breaking a mirror, seeing a black cat, walking under a ladder, and, depending on where you are, Tuesday or Friday the 13th are all viewed as omens foreboding something evil.

What is the source or origin of all these practices and superstitions? Humans possess a spiritual dimension that makes them different from other beings. They are born with the urge to search out the unknown. They are ever struggling with questions such as: What is the meaning of life? What happens after one dies? What is man�s relationship to the material world and, in fact, to the universe? They are also driven by the desire to reach out to something higher or more powerful than himself in order to gain some control over thier environment and life.

How they endeavored to satisfy that inborn desire to reach out to the unknown was quite another matter. Nomadic hunters and herdsmen trembled at the power of wild beasts. Farmers were particularly attuned to the changes in weather and seasons. Dwellers of the jungles reacted quite differently from people living in the deserts or mountains. In the face of these varied fears and needs, people developed a bewildering variety of religious practices through which they hoped to appeal to the benevolent gods and appease the fearsome ones.

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on Friday October 13, 1307, the Knights Templar were arrested in France under the edict of Phillip IV, with the Pope`s blessing. This has been considered a unlucky day since.

Lucky Scotts

It's lucky in Scotland, thats what my auntie tells me. She says that Friday, the number 13, and black cats, were all symbols of feminity; thus, when feminity became feared with the rise of Judeo-Christian partiarchy, so too did the symbols become unlucky.

Martes y trece

And in Spain the unlucky combination is Tuesday 13th.

Tuesday the 13th's luck

this day that everyone scares themselves about is just
merely how you take it.... if you fear this day then of course your fears will turn into negative energy and then that will eventually become your "bad luck". Of course the only person i can truly vouch for it being a day of good luck is me. I was born in September, tuesday the 13th,1988. All i can say is that my life doesn't really seem that unlucky and i would think that being born on that day would make me well really unlucky, and well i just don't see it that way...but hey, that's just my opinion.

FREYA'S DAY
It is said that "Friday" is named after the Norse Goddess Freya: It is Freya's Day. In post-Christianized Europe, this is already in the danger zone. Any day that is sacred to a Goddess must be bad for "good Christians."

Add to that the occult number "13," a supposed Witches' number, sacred because of the 13 moons in a year -- a symbolism intimately connected with women's menstruation. Since spiritual power becomes available to women on their moon, and powerful women who are not ashamed of their bodies (or existence) must be Witches, "13" is associated with what Christianity most fears.

Thus Friday the 13th becomes laden with dangerous overtones for Christians.

It's plain superstition. And worse: religious bigotry and the demonization of the feminine aspect of life.

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