10/13/2006 - Firday the 13

Well it should be no surprsie what my topic is for today. Perhaps one of our most infamous of superstions and one in which near all of us are famillar with. The dreaded Friday the 13th, a day in which some of us still fear and try to aviod. To others it is but another day, and now to some it is a day that is looked forward, perhaps for little other reason then becasue the rest of society holds it as unlucky thier are those that embrace as as a way to show thier non-conformist beleifs. I do have to admit that even sense I was a child I had always been in the class of looking forward to Friday the 13th.

But how has it gotten such a bad rap? Well I thought I would do some reaserach into that, and well first you cannot try and evaulaute Friday the 13th which out looking at the number 13 itself which is considered to be on its own an unluky number. Though it cannot be tracked back to exzactly why this is an unlucky number. It has been considered unlucky by many different ancient cultures and there are many different therories behind the origins of fear of this number. Some dating back to the Egyptians, some envolving Christinanity.

So how did Friday get singled out in being particuarly unlucky in combination with this number, when there is a 13th of something every month?

Well it cannot really be tracked back to one sorce. Some track it back to stories in Norse Myth, others to Christainty, some theories suggest that is is becasue Friday in many anceint cultures on its own has been considered unlucky and so the combination of an unlucky day with an unlucky number is considered doubly unlucky. Some therories link it to the Knights of Templar.

Whatever the ture orgins, if there is a true orgin, the idea of Friday the 13 still holds sway and grip today, and has been an imporant and influencial figure throughout history reguardless of beleif.