Friday the 13th

Facts about the unlucky day

I knew today was 13th — I just didn’t put the two together until I read this in yahoo pages .That’s a whole lot of information on this superstition! but Is this true?

If Friday the 13th is unlucky, then 2009 is an unusually unlucky year. Today is Friday the 13th is one of three to endure this year. The first came last month. The next is in November. Such a rare triple-threat occurs only once every 11 years. The origin of the link between bad luck and Friday the 13th is murky. The whole thing might date to Biblical times (the 13th guest at the Last Supper betrayed Jesus). By the Middle Ages, both Friday and 13 were considered bearers of bad fortune. In modern times, the superstition permeates society.

Here are some fact bout Friday-the-13th:-

1. Fear of Friday the 13th - one of the most popular myths in science - is called paraskavedekatriaphobia as well as friggatriskaidekaphobia. Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13.

2. Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor and some airline terminals omit Gate 13.

3. President Franklin D. Roosevelt would not travel on the 13th day of any month and would never host 13 guests at a meal. Napoleon and President Herbert Hoover were also triskaidekaphobic, with an abnormal fear of the number 13.

4. Mark Twain once was the 13th guest at a dinner party. A friend warned him not to go. "It was bad luck," Twain later told the friend. "They only had food for 12." Superstitious diners in Paris can hire a quatorzieme, or professional 14th guest.

5. The number 13 suffers from its position after 12, according to numerologists who consider the latter to be a complete number - 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles of Jesus, 12 days of Christmas and 12 eggs in a dozen.

I think the whole number/day superstition thing makes me wonder why, like there being no 4 or 13th floor in most of building eg.HP tower or because the sound of “four” in Mandarin(?) means death, so people change 4 to 3A..if like this how bout people who born in 4th or 13th..i think some of them living happyly & healty eg..S4s1hmm.anyway for me i think numbers are just numbers. They hold no inherent value except in a person’s mind..