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Friday,
February 13, 2004 |
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Superstition
reigns on Friday the 13th
Ladders,
black cats and hockey masks, oh my
COMMENTARY
Is
everyone scared? If you aren’t, you should be. Today
is Friday the 13th and superstition has it that bad things
will come your way.
Don’t do anything stupid like walk under a ladder
or open an umbrella inside. The rumors say that, if you
do, you will have several years of bad luck.
For all you paraskevidekatriaphobes, those afraid of Friday
the 13th or psychotic men with hockey masks, make sure
to stay inside your room under the covers so nothing at
all happens to you.
Christians have feared Fridays because things like Jesus
being crucified, Eve eating the forbidden fruit and the
Great Flood have supposedly happened on a Friday.
The fear of the number 13 came about because that’s
the number of witches in a coven, months in the pagan
lunar calendar and the number of people at the Last Supper.
When these two elements mix, it becomes one of the scariest
days of the year.
Friday and the number 13 are related to each other in
capital punishment. Britain held public hangings on Fridays
and the prisoner had to walk up 13 steps to get to the
noose.
We learn from a young age to fear this day, and because
of this, people look for bad things to happen on this
day. If you fall down a flight of stairs, get robbed or
eat a bug, you attribute this flaw in your day to the
curse of Friday the 13th.
So make sure you don’t let a black cat walk in front
of you, make sure to bless everyone that sneezes and most
definitely check behind you often, because you never know
who or what may be there. |
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