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Why Friday the 13th Is Unlucky

Friday February 13, 2009
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The sixth day of the week and the number 13 have foreboding reputations said to date from ancient times, and their inevitable conjunction from one to three times a year (there happen to be three such occurrences in 2009, two of them right in a row!) portends more misfortune than some credulous minds can bear.  Here's why...

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June 13, 2008 at 3:30 pm
(1) ViaL says:

Friday the 13th has alsways turnred out to be lucky for me. I’m surprised with something good. I think it all has to do with how we see and/or think about things. Think something bad will happen and that’s what you’ll get. Think something good will happen and you’ll at least have a happy day.

June 14, 2008 at 11:06 pm
(2) Dezzie says:

my birthday is september the 13th and some of the time like all other birthdays on the 13th of a month fall on a frday every seven years or more as long as leap year falls their way… my 16th and my 21st birthday fell or will fall on friday the 13th so i have fun with it and its always lucky for me no matter it is my birthday or not

February 9, 2009 at 12:50 am
(3) divorced says:

I got married on Friday, Octber 13, 2000 and was divorced by the next Friday 13th…. LOL Guess it was not meant to be.

February 13, 2009 at 11:49 am
(4) Blissful says:

I mustered up the courage to invite a man I admired at work to a friday 13th full moon meditation class. He moved in with me 2 weeks later, and then 2 years later on a friday 13th with a full moon, we got married.
We’ve been together …blissfully happy…since 1988 and every friday 13th, he takes a vacation day and we spend the day together.
For us, it has always been a very lucky day!

February 13, 2009 at 9:12 pm
(5) raul says:

hi
here in Mexico it is the thursday 13 and not on friday.
thanks

February 15, 2009 at 11:59 am
(6) Candace says:

Then again–it’s Tuesday the 13th that is unlucky in some of Latin America. Go figure.

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