Friday, 13.: Is the World Going Down Today? - What Is Behind the Myth?
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Today is Friday, the 13th - now threatens the end of the world? What is behind the myth about the "accident day".
Friday the 13th is a day that has been associated with the worst urban legends and superstitions, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries, Spanish-speaking countries and Germany. It is a typical example of this prejudice that in these countries even today many buildings do not have a 13th floor while many streets do not have the number 13. […]
It was Friday, November 13, 1868, when Gioacchino Rossini, the composer of The Barber of Seville, died in Paris. His biographer, Henry Sutherland Edwards, wrote a year later that, if Rossini did indeed consider Fridays unlucky and the 13th to be unlucky, the date of his death was notable. Today is the third and final […] Friday and the 13th: Why it is considered an unlucky day - pontosnews.gr
Friday the 13th is today, and the superstitious will say that it is by definition an unlucky day. But how did this opinion about Fridays of the year, which happen to be the 13th day of the month, arise and prevail? Any Friday that coincides with the 13th of a month is considered unlucky in the Anglo-Saxon, French, German and Portuguese regions of the world. Similar superstitions exist in other traditions: in Greece and Spain, for example, this r…
Today's Friday the 13th brings back to the fore one of the most well-known urban myths: the belief that this particular date is associated with bad luck.
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