Paraskevidekatriaphobia!
Is it just me or is everybody pretty blasé about Friday the 13th?
My sister was born on Friday the 13th and she’s lovely. I’ve never really had a problem with it. I was always jealous of a girl called Suzanne Akers at boarding school. She had strict instructions that she wasn’t allowed to go to school on Friday the 13th.
Apparently her family home had burned down on Friday the 13th and her uncle was killed in a car accident on Friday the 13th…subsequently her family had a rule, no one was allowed out of the house…on one hand I thought her family sounded like a bunch of kooks…on Friday the 13th I wished I was among their number.
Friday the 13th has an amazing history. One article I read claimed Eve gave Adam the apple on Friday the 13th. Maybe that’s where it all started.
Alexander the Great died on Friday the 13th, June 323BC.
The emperor Claudius eventually died on Friday the 13th, October 54AD, although his wife, Agrippina, did give him poisoned mushrooms, followed by a poison enema and finally had him smothered with a cushion....so I'm not sure bad luck was to blame for his demise.
Greek philosophers believed the number 13 was an imperfect number and Italian lotteries avoid the number completely.
Some ships' captains won't leave port on the 13th day. Composer Arnold Schonberg was irrational about the number 13 and he ended up dying on Friday 13th at exactly 13 minutes before midnight.
Some hotels omit a 13th floor; and when the Queen visited West Germany in 1965, the stationmaster at Duisburg arranged to change the number of the platform from which the Queen's train was due to depart from 13 to 12A.
What can I say? Have a great day…and kids…maybe think about staying home today…
My sister was born on Friday the 13th and she’s lovely. I’ve never really had a problem with it. I was always jealous of a girl called Suzanne Akers at boarding school. She had strict instructions that she wasn’t allowed to go to school on Friday the 13th.
Apparently her family home had burned down on Friday the 13th and her uncle was killed in a car accident on Friday the 13th…subsequently her family had a rule, no one was allowed out of the house…on one hand I thought her family sounded like a bunch of kooks…on Friday the 13th I wished I was among their number.
Friday the 13th has an amazing history. One article I read claimed Eve gave Adam the apple on Friday the 13th. Maybe that’s where it all started.
Alexander the Great died on Friday the 13th, June 323BC.
The emperor Claudius eventually died on Friday the 13th, October 54AD, although his wife, Agrippina, did give him poisoned mushrooms, followed by a poison enema and finally had him smothered with a cushion....so I'm not sure bad luck was to blame for his demise.
Greek philosophers believed the number 13 was an imperfect number and Italian lotteries avoid the number completely.
Some ships' captains won't leave port on the 13th day. Composer Arnold Schonberg was irrational about the number 13 and he ended up dying on Friday 13th at exactly 13 minutes before midnight.
Some hotels omit a 13th floor; and when the Queen visited West Germany in 1965, the stationmaster at Duisburg arranged to change the number of the platform from which the Queen's train was due to depart from 13 to 12A.
What can I say? Have a great day…and kids…maybe think about staying home today…
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