Comments on: Friday the 13th: Origins and Facts

By: shelley

shelley — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:42:51 +0000

I think Friday the 13th is like any other day. I also think you are crazy to believe that day is bad luck. I focus more on 666. That is bad luck. I guess it depends on your culture and how you look at stuff. I am a christian and I also believe you cant go along with that. If god died on a friday and it was on the 13th to me thats not bad luck. Thats god keeping his promise to me. He died so I could live forever.That had to be my luckiest day ever. I will one day go to be with him because of it. Live it like it was good day thats what he wants and to live life right.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:33:21 +0000

i think you are a lie and a half

By: emily

emily — Mon, 09 May 2011 07:33:17 +0000

i believe but bad luck dosen’thappen to me beacause i was at my nana’sone day on the thirteenth and her cat is black and it walked past me i walked under a ladder again nothing happened and we brought new shoes and put them on a table and nothing happened

By: Meaghan

Meaghan — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:12:26 +0000

I usually have good luck on Friday the 13th, rather than bad.

By: Spike

Spike — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:22:43 +0000

There’s also the “13 in a witches’ coven” reason, propagated by the early church, though that itself might even have been based on the Last Supper thing.

By the way, the baker’s dozen has a much more sensible explanation as well: bakers always baked one extra, in case one got burned, dropped, damaged or otherwise became unsellable.

By: natalina

natalina — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:28:57 +0000

It is interesting how deeply some believe that a date holds particular powers over their destiny. I recall reading about the Templars in Davinci Code as well, now that you mention it. Looking forward to Angels and Demons?

By: natalina

natalina — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:25:45 +0000

I think you have a great point, shadowmoon87. Is it possible that what we consider good and bad luck is just the manifestation of our subconscious mind, which already believes it knows what is going to happen? Interesting.

By: shadowmoon87

shadowmoon87 — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:50:49 +0000

Superstitions.
Only something from out minds? Maybe.
Here’s how I think:
If you believe that something bad will happen BECAUSE it’s a specific day than ANY bad event that occurs will be associated to that day and you’ll find yourself blaming this day.
For instance, you’re preparing a meal and you accidentally cut yourself while handling a knife. If this happens on Friday 13th than it’s because this day is a bad luck day but if this happens on Monday 2nd it’s because you weren’t paying attention or were doing things in a rush, not because of bad luck.
See what I mean?
The same goes for horoscopes, good luck day and others that I don’t remember.

By: Sietse Smith

Sietse Smith — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:24:51 +0000

good read! I guess it was Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code that first tought me this little fact about friday the 13th.

I’m not superstitious, but it’s fun to see how a lot of people really seem to avoid these dates when it comes to planning important meetings or weddings and such