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FRIDAY the 13th - Is it really unpromising?
June 13, 2008Is it really an auspicious day? I have sliced some article from wikipedia and it says that;
Friday the 13th is considered a day of bad luck in English-, French- and Portuguese-speaking countries around the world, as well as in Austria, Germany, Estonia, Finland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Republic of Ireland, Poland, Bulgaria, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, and the Philippines.
Similar superstitions exist in some other traditions. In Greece, Romania and Spanish-speaking countries, for example, it is Tuesday the 13th that is considered unlucky. In Italy, it is Friday the 17th.
The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia, a word derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (Παρασκευή) (meaning Friday), and dekatreís (δεκατρείς) (meaning thirteen), attached to phobía (φοβία) (meaning fear). The term is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a simple phobia (fear) of the number thirteen appearing in any case.
For me I really believe in it though others may not. I may loss nothing if I care about the date. This serves as a warning for me not to go anywhere or have my FRIDAY Night out with my friends! Seldom in a calendar that I can see a friday the 13th date. So maybe I have to behave like a straightforward person! Just for one day! Hehehe.
It won’t spoil my whole year anyways. Just a day! But for those whose not aware of its implications. You better be safe than sorry!
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It all depends if you believe it or not. I think that people tend to focus more on negative/unlucky matters on Friday the 13th, when nothing out of the ordinary actually happened.
Posted by Ade at June 13, 2008, 4:48 pm