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Why is Friday 13th considered to be bad luck? The meaning behind the superstition
13.05.2022 - 15:57 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Get some sage at the ready, because today marks the ominous Friday 13th. The day has long been marked as a particularly unlucky one for hundreds of years, but the precise origin of the superstition remains unclear.
The 13 part of it is not confined to the Friday 13 superstition. Skyscrapers will often eschew a 13th floor, opting to jump from 12 to 14, while airlines will also often skip row 13 on passenger jets.
But what about the Friday part? One possible explanation is the Last Supper, where Jesus sat down with 12 disciples meaning that there were 13 diners, before he was crucified on Good Friday.
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Nonetheless, the superstition around the number 13 itself is not universal. For example in Italy it is not Friday 13 but Friday 17 which is considered to be the unlucky day, with one explanation being that the Roman numerals XVII can be rearranged to "VIXI", Latin for "I have lived".
In China the number four receives the same treatment as 13, with buildings skipping the fourth floor. This is because the pronunciation of the number four is very similar to the word for "death" in Mandarin.
Meanwhile the number 39 gets a bad rap in Afghanistan. In Dari, the dialect of Persian spoken in North and West Afghanistan, the word for 39 can also be used to refer to a pimp, and is viewed with distaste as a result.
All these numerical superstitions have very clear reasons for being viewed with fear or distaste. However, with the number 13 in Western culture the origin is less obvious.
We've already talked about the Christian origin. This refers to the 13 diners at the Last Supper, with 13 coming to be associated with the somewhat unfairly put upon
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