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Ghost1:
[fly]Happy Friday The 13th! [/fly]

Today is Friday The 13th, whats everything about this day.........Do you believe it's really bad luck, and bad things will happen all day?  cho  I personally don't think anything about it at all, It's just a normal Friday that happens to be on the 13th of the month..

If you've had some sort of bad Friday the 13th experience, please tell us about it.

Friday the 13th is considered a day of bad luck in English-, French- and Portuguese-speaking countries around the world, as well as in Austria, Germany, Estonia, Finland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Republic of Ireland, Poland, Bulgaria, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, and the Philippines.

Similar superstitions exist in some other traditions. In Greece, Romania and Spanish-speaking countries, for example, it is Tuesday the 13th that is considered unlucky. In Italy, it is Friday the 17th.

The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia, a word derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (Παρασκευή) (meaning Friday), and dekatreís (δεκατρείς) (meaning thirteen), attached to phobía (φοβία) (meaning fear). The term is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a simple phobia (fear) of the number thirteen appearing in any case.

ghostlight:
It's weird but in my experience 13 is my lucky number! So far today has been a normal day!

Colleen2510:
My brother had the luckiest day he's had all year on Friday the 13th. Among other things he found a 20 dollar bill on the ground by the cola machine at our office. Then some other cool things happened to him! I told him to be sure to buy his lotto tickets that afternoon.....LOL

veganrichy:
Funny; I used the # 13 as my baseball and soccer number. Hasn't brought me bad luck at all--because I kicked some major--well you can get the idea. So the history and origin of the number, hasn't effected my playing level. Most superstitions are a bit extreme as it is.

Colleen2510:
I had always figured it had something to do with numerology. I have lost all faith in numerology though.  The number 8 is supposed to represent wealth and prosperity and if you carry a number 8 in your pocket, wallet, purse or whatever you usually carry your money in it is supposed to cause your money to grow. Not magically of course but just that you are supposed to prosper and be able watch your wallet get fat. It hasn't worked for me in the past 5 years so I'm wondering how ppl keep their faith in numerology....cause I certainly tried it!

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