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It's amazing really how many superstitions are still thriving in our educated society, and one of the most common is the idea that Friday the 13th is a day when bad luck looms.
Businessmen avoid making deals on this day, people avoid travelling, women fear giving birth, and so the list goes on. A lot of people still avoid doing anything major because of a simple date. Silly? Maybe. But realistic enough for some of us.
I've had a look around, to see if I could discover why. This is what I've come up with.
Superstitions that surround Friday have been buzzing about since the Ancient Romans dedicated the sixth day to their goddess Venus. The Norsemen, when naming their days, followed the Roman tradition, and named the day after their own goddess, Freya. This eventually evolved into Friday and was considered to be the luckiest day of the week.
If we look at religion, we also find reason for believing that Friday is a lucky day. Christians consider Friday to be the day on which Christ was crucified, and Muslims believe that Adam was created on a Friday, and later died on a Friday as a result of eating the forbidden fruit, also on a Friday.
The Scandinavians believed that the number 13 would bring bad luck due to the mythological 12 demigods being joined by a 13th, an evil one, who brought misfortune upon humans.
In the Christian faith, the number of guests at the party of the Last Supper was 13, with the 13th guest being Judas, the traitor.
When taking both the crucifixion of Jesus and the place of Judas at the Last Supper into consideration, it is little wonder that the Christians believed Friday 13th to be a day of especially bad significance.
Superstitions stem from beliefs or practices that man has used, or continues to use, to explain events that are beyond his control, in a world where events are often difficult to understand. It is only when factual evidence is found and a belief disproved, that it becomes a superstition if people continue to cling to the idea.
Therefore, the beliefs of today, may very well become the superstitions of tomorrow.
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Sharon Jacobsen is founder/administrator of Friends Your Way, a web service designed to help women meet other women for platonic friendships in their local area of the UK. Having grown up in East London, Sharon moved to Norway at the age of 19, where she remained until 1998. She now lives in Cheshire with her partner and two of her three children.
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