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Halloween and Superstitions
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A ship that sails on
Friday will have bad luck.
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Never start a trip on Friday or you will meet
misfortune.
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Never start to make a
garment on Friday unless you can finish it the same day.
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Fear of Friday the
13th is rooted in ancient, separate bad-luck associations with the number 13
and day Friday. The two unlucky entities combine to make one super unlucky
day.
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Both Friday and the
number 13 were once closely associated with capital punishment. In British
tradition, Friday was the conventional day for public hangings, and there
were supposedly 13 steps leading up to the noose.
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It is traditionally
believed that Eve tempted Adam with the apple on a Friday. Tradition also has
it that the Flood in the Bible, the confusion at the Tower of Babel, and the
death of Jesus Christ all took place on Friday.
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Numerologists
consider 12 a "complete" number. There are 12 months in a year, 12
signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of
Israel, and 12 apostles of Jesus. In exceeding 12 by 1, 13's association with
bad luck has to do with just being a little beyond completeness.
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More than 80 percent
of high-rises lack a 13th floor.
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Many airports skip the
13th gate.
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Airplanes have no 13th
aisle.
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Hospitals and hotels
regularly have no room number 13.
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Italians omit the
number 13 from their national lottery.
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On streets in
Florence, Italy, the house between number 12 and 14 is addressed as 12 and a half.
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Many cities do not
have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue
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In France, socialites
known as the quatorziens that is fourteeners once made themselves available
as 14th guests to keep a dinner party from an unlucky fate.
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Those who fear the
unlucky integer are known, point to the ill-fated mission to the moon, Apollo
13.
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Cut your hair on Good
Friday to prevent headaches in the year to come
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