Yes, I think everyone or at least almost everyone LOVES Friday the 13th. I also believe everybody out there has a fear, nervousness, or is a bit leery of Friday the 13th. And of course the superstitions around that day.
I also love the movie franchise that Jason can never die.
Here is a little history/trivia or more like folklore about this day.
The earliest related lore I could find to Friday the 13th is the many executions of the Knights Templar's.
At dawn on Friday, October 13, 1307, scores of French Templar's were simultaneously arrested by agents of King Philip, later to be tortured in locations such as the tower at Chinon, into admitting heresy and other sacrilegious offenses in the Order. Then they were put to death.
1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini, who died on a Friday 13th.
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
In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve hours of the clock, 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, 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.
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.
Friday is also the day when Jesus Christ was crucified, making it through folklore and adding to its unpopularity.
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.
Notable people who died on Friday the 13th.
| Person | Date of Death |
|---|---|
| Sam Patch | 13 November 1829 |
| 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 (serial killer) | 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 |
| 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 |
Try to avoid saying things like, "I’ll be fine, I promise", "You stay here and I’ll go check it out", "I'll be right back", "It's just the wind", "There's no one there", et al.
Well, have a good weekend.
Cheers all
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