Friday the 13th not unlucky
NEW YORK (UPI)Today is Friday the thirteenth. You can either watch your step or take the unlucky day with a grain of salt.
Authorities say most people clinging to the superstition that the day's bound to be dreadful tend to be poorly educated. However, some eggheads conform. They do so to play it safe—or out of amusement.
Friday, even when it's not the thirteenth, is supposed to be a dreary day. Historians say the day got its bad luck image because at one time criminals went to the gallows on Fridays. Another reason: Christ was crucified on a Friday.
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The number 13's bad luck is supposed to be linked to the fact that there were 13 at the last supper—Christ and 12 apostles.
Friday hasn't always been a bad day. Scandinavians once thought the day their luckiest. One reason: the word itself comes from the Anglo Saxon Friegedaeg, which means Frigg's Day. Frigg was a goddess of love in Norse mythology.
But 13 by itself isn't always bad. Consider a baker's dozen. You get 13 whatever it is when sharing in a baker's dozen, but only pay for 12.
Among office workers, Friday's not exactly dreary. It has given rise to the joyful T.G.L.F. Thank God, It's Friday club. A glass
raised or bread broken in the name of the club heralds the approaching weekend and its freedom from work.
Superstitions, per se, don't have much place in this scientific era. Primitive man, thinking the world governed by good and evil forces, believed in them. Now we know everything in nature has natural causes. This cause and effect theory is based on observation, plus reasoning.
Common superstitions include: Blister on tongue means you've uttered a lie; burning ears indicate someone's talking about you; gift of anything with a cutting edge will cut friendship.
Bad luck associated with some superstitions is easily explained. Unlucky to stub a toe? Of course; it hurts. Unlucky to wear clothes
inside out? Naturally. It's bound to make you uncomfortable the humiliating way.
Consider these other "unlucky"
things:
- Unlucky to leave a house by a window. The house is either on fire or being flooded or the door is stuck or it's locked and you can't find your key. In whatever case, it's not good.
- Unlucky to sit on a table.
The only time most people would is accompanied by its own bad luck—maybe a mouse in the house? Or a burst water pipe sends water cascading over the floor.
If you prefer to take Friday the thirteenth with a grain of salt, careful with the salt. If you spill salt, it's supposed to predict a quarrel!
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