Other than Halloween, when I am lucky enough to get a Friday the 13th, it is my next favorite day of any year.

Have a fabulously, wickedly evil one, ya'll!

Thanks!

Happy Friday the 13th to all!

Happy Friday the 13th!

I'm not sure of the significance, Nsane, but I'm curious as well. Hmm, might have to do some research.

I usually have stellar luck on Friday the 13th; hope everyone here does too.

I thought I remembered it having to do with the major first stock market crash, but I've read that it has to do with Judas being the thirteenth at the last super. Christians aren't suppose be superstitious though so I don't know.

This has nothing to do what so ever with Judas or anything related.

I get nostagic on Friday the 13th. and hope all those celebrating the day and holding parties have a great time!!!!

To my knowledge christ was crucified on a Friday and Judas was the 13th disciple -

13 has always been a good number for me and workwise I can be a slouch as nobody wants to move house on Friday 13th!

^^ Interesting...

From the article:
"[Rossini] was surrounded to the last by admiring and affectionate friends; and if it be true that, like so many other Italians, he regarded Friday as an unlucky day, and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that on Friday, the 13th of November, he died."

Italian for Friday: venerdi. The day named for Venus.

Also from the article:
"The actual origin of the superstition, though, appears also to be a tale in Norse mythology. Friday is named for Frigga, the free-spirited goddess of love and fertility. When Norse and Germanic tribes converted to Christianity, Frigga was banished in shame to a mountaintop and labeled a witch. It was believed that every Friday, the spiteful goddess convened a meeting with eleven other witches, plus the devil - a gathering of thirteen - and plotted ill turns of fate for the coming week. For many centuries in Scandinavia, Friday was known as "Witches' Sabbath."

Seems that in two cultures, Friday the 13th superstitions might have been rooted in anxiety toward love/sex. I don't know; I'm just having fun observing and playing with theories.

^ Very interesting stuff!

There are so many different reasons why Friday 13th is unlucky that is hard to keep up with.

Seemed like a good day to resurrect this one.

Happy Friday the Thriteenth!

Friday the Thirteenth a secret cultural reference... or just an unlucky day?

Once again we must prepare ourselves for the dreaded Friday the thirteenth! Are you taking any chances on this day of fright and fear? If so, you are clearly not superstitious, nor do you suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia, the pathological fear of Friday 13.

However (according to the online encyclopedia) Friday the 13th is actually unlucky for some of us. Psychologists have found that people are especially likely to have accidents or fall ill on Friday 13th, due (according to them!) to a heightened state of anxiety on that day. The Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina estimates that in the United States alone, $800 to $900 million is lost in business each Friday 13th because people will not travel or go to work.

So a lot of people think Friday 13 is an unlucky day, but why?? To answer this, there are two or three questions we must first ask ourselves about the luck of Friday the thirteenth:

Why Friday?
and why the thirteenth?
Most important of all, is it really unlucky?
In ancient times, before the development of Western Civilisation as we know it, people had a very different conception of the world from the view held by most Westerners today. In the first place, their relationship with natural energies and powers was much closer and more intense than that of today's urban dweller. The mechanised, electrified environment of the 21st century city is a place where natural cycles can easily be overlooked — or to be more particular, deliberately overcome.

Life in those times tended to be a series of ritualised and sanctified interactions with nature. These sacred events have crystallised over the years into the festivals, saints' days and holiday cycles we still celebrate today (such as Christmas and Easter), although with little general understanding of their primary intention and meaning.

More at the link