th Origins of the Superstition Unlucky Friday Garden of Eden Tower of Babel Flood Solomons Temple destroyed amp Crucifiction Pagan RomeExecution Day Later BritainHangmans Day ID: 433183
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Friday the 13th
Origins of the SuperstitionSlide2
Unlucky Friday
Garden of Eden, Tower of Babel, Flood, Solomon’s Temple destroyed, & CrucifictionPagan Rome—Execution Day
(Later) Britain—Hangman’s Day
Pagan/Pre-Christian Sabbath (so unholy unlucky, like trips, & enemies tied to witchcraft: “Witches’ Sabbath”)
Black Friday, stock market crashes (1800s on)
Unlucky to start trip, begin new projectsSlide3Slide4
Friday LegendsSlide5
Unlucky #13
#12 completeness#13 irregular, transgressing completenessEgyptian beliefs in stages of life/deathLast Supper
Primitive man, counting
Patriarchal culture
villifying
women
Hindus at dinner/Vikings at dinnerSlide6
#13 LegendsSlide7
Other Days
Tuesday the 13th, Spanish culturesTuesdays, Greek
Fridays, Indonesian (Java)Slide8
13 as Lucky
Chinese culture(Egyptian culture, during the pharoahs)Slide9
Frigg/Freya: Friday &
13—from lucky to unluckySlide10
DaVinci Code/Knights TemplarSlide11
Combination
Origin unclear & relatively modern (1900s)Might just be unlucky Friday & unlucky 13 = more unlucky dayPopularity from book,
Friday the 13
th
(stockbroker’s crash)Slide12
Phobia of Friday the 13th
“friggatriskaidekaphobia”“frigga
” (
Frigga
goddess/Friday) + “triskaidekaphobia” (fear of #13)
Or “
paraskevidekatriaphobia”“para” (Gr
. Friday) + “dekatreis” (thirteen) +“phobia” (fear of)Slide13
Is it unlucky?
Netherlands vs. England: different findingsSlide14
America’s biggest superstition?