Why exactly is Friday 13th considered bad luck? Where did the notion originate from?
The fear of Friday the 13th is friggatriskaidekaphobia. Supposedly there is no evidence for Friday the 13th before the 19th century.
However, Friday the 13th is most likely a combination of the unlucky association with the number 13 and the unlucky day of Friday.
- The number 13 is unlucky because it is the number after the number of completeness (#12). There are 12 hours on the clock, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 Apostles of Jesus, 12 Gods of Olympus, 12 Zodiac signs, etc. It is a prime number and symbolizes irregularity and the lack of completeness. Some people believe that the fact that Jesus was the 13th person at the Las Supper meant that someone was bound to die.
- The Canterbury Tales highlighted Friday as an unlucky day. Black Friday was when the stock market crashed and disasters have happened since the 1800s. Jesus was also crucified on a Friday.
The combination of these two superstitions created the modern (post 1800) day notion of bad luck associated with Friday the 13th.
The knights templar….. they were all killed early on Friday 13th by the King of france. On Friday the Thirteenth, 1307, a great spiritual military Order known as the Knights Templar, fell to the machinations of the then-King of France, Philip Le Bel. The Knights Templar were very powerful and influential (our modern-day banking and credit card system was invented by the Knights Templar) all across Europe and the Middle East, and there is no satisfactory explanation as to how the king pulled off such a feat, or why the knights did not put up a fight at all, though they were certainly equipped to do so! There are many unanswered questions about the Knights Templar but the fact remains that the fall of the Templar Order left such an impression on the consciousness of the world, that the day of their official demise is remembered to this day as one of extreme bad luck! P.S. The notion that Jesus was crucified on Friday the thirteenth or got arrested has NO basis in fact whatsoever; the v
