It's Friday the 13th... Are you superstitious?

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It's Friday the 13th... Are you superstitious?

Postby Bob Of Burleson » Fri Jun 13, 2014 1:38 pm

13 things you should know about Friday the 13th

IndiaToday.in

Friday the 13th has sparked off a series of slasher movies titled Friday the 13th.

It's Friday the 13th today. This is perhaps the single, most dreaded date in the entire calendar. So much so that whole superstitions based on Friday the 13th have been created by some imaginative minds. Not just that, a whole series of horror movies have been created simply on the basis of the day and its date - Friday the 13th. Today, the phrase Friday the 13th easily rolls off the tongue in reference to bad luck, strange happenings and a hockey-masked murderer in a slasher flick.

So what's so ominous about Friday the 13th?

Here are 13 things to know about the date:

1. There is no known origin of the phrase Friday the 13th or of the superstitions related to it. However, the first written reference to the date's wickedness appeared in the mid-19th century when William Fowler, a US Army captain, founded the Thirteen Club - a group of 13 men in Manhattan devoted to proving that superstitions were false. Apparently, five former US presidents were honorary members of the club.

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Re: It's Friday the 13th... Are you superstitious?

Postby marti » Fri Jun 13, 2014 1:40 pm

It is a lucky day for me....my wonderful husband was born on Friday, the 13th.

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Re: It's Friday the 13th... Are you superstitious?

Postby RedEye » Fri Jun 13, 2014 1:56 pm

I've always read that Friday 13, 1307 was the day the King of France ordered the arrest of the leaders of the Knights Templar.

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Postby BillB » Fri Jun 13, 2014 4:28 pm

Yep, I'm superstitious, but not about Friday the 13th.
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Postby LibraryLady » Fri Jun 13, 2014 4:34 pm

Not superstitious about Friday the 13th.
I even scheduled elective surgery on that date a few years ago.
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Re: It's Friday the 13th... Are you superstitious?

Postby FlashM » Fri Jun 13, 2014 4:36 pm

I'm not triskaidekaphobic, either. I've never had a bad Friday the Thirteenth.
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Postby Trixie » Fri Jun 13, 2014 4:42 pm

I've never been superstitious. I've had bad days on Thursday the 27th, Wednesday the 12th, etc. LOL!

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Postby BillB » Fri Jun 13, 2014 4:50 pm

Black people are very superstitious.
I use to install phones in the Black part of town and saw a lot of that kind of stuff.
There is always an old woman in the neighborhood that everyone is afraid of because she puts hexes on people.
If you check, almost every Black home has a small mirror hanging by the front door.
That's so the Devil will see himself and run and he won't come into the house.
A long time ago they would spread cat poop and ice cream salt around the front porch to keep evil spirits away.

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Postby John In Austin » Fri Jun 13, 2014 5:00 pm

Friday the 13th with a full mon. Very unlucky. Plus I have a black cat.
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Re: It's Friday the 13th... Are you superstitious?

Postby Bob Of Burleson » Fri Jun 13, 2014 5:18 pm

A Spooky Friday the 13th Full Moon ... Or Is It?

By Phil Plait
Slate.com

Did you see the full Moon last night and this morning? It was pretty much like all full Moons—that is, silvery and big and gorgeous—but if you have a mind for such things, it may have occurred to you it happened on Friday the 13th.

If you’re on social media, you may have seen some links to this fact, claiming it’s a rare event.

But is it?

Well, yeah, it is. But being rare doesn’t make it special! A full Moon on any given day of the week on a given date is rare. This event is no more rare than having a full Moon on a Friday the 12th, or a Tuesday the 27th, for that matter*.

What’s funny to me is that as you read this, the real moment the Moon was most full was actually last night. That occurred on Friday, June 13, at 04:11 UTC … but that’s just after midnight EDT, and for me, in Boulder where we’re on Mountain time, it actually happened on Thursday night at 10:11 p.m.

Living on a round ball makes telling time a bit tricky.

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Re: It's Friday the 13th... Are you superstitious?

Postby GFB » Fri Jun 13, 2014 7:25 pm

I guess I'm not...took a plane today.
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