Anyone here scared of this day? I sure am! LOL
♥ Listen, touch, and look around in the air and on the ground. If you watch all nature's things, you might just see a fairy's wings. ♥
Not me ,, When and where did this superstition start ?
I think it might be a Celtic thing. But not for sure. But here is one explanation
LEGEND HAS IT: If 13 people sit down to dinner together, one will die within the year. The Turks so disliked the number 13 that it was practically expunged from their vocabulary (Brewer, 1894). Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue. Many buildings don't have a 13th floor. If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck (Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13 letters in their names). There are 13 witches in a coven.
Although no one can say for sure when and why human beings first associated the number 13 with misfortune, the superstition is assumed to be quite old, and there exist any number of theories — most of which deserve to be treated with a healthy skepticism, please note — purporting to trace its origins to antiquity and beyond. This is a quote from the net.
Yeah actually, I haven't been having a good week, and this makes me squeamish..
Yes, Angol. But most scholars predate it way father back.
Thank you very much REDWOLF for the explanation,, I think I will count the letters in my name and see if this name thing is true for me!
Aw crap! My first and last name equal to 13 letters!!
♥ Listen, touch, and look around in the air and on the ground. If you watch all nature's things, you might just see a fairy's wings. ♥
no 13 to me is a good number. there are 13 members in a coven.
I rarely use wikipedia but i go back to the sources of old. I am also a member of orders that reach back centuries and I'm a keeper of records. So If you have anything further or would like to debate history. Please PM me and we shall.
( As a keeper of records, I can tell you that the only things that are known to the public are what we release.)