☺️ Happy Friday 13th! Today is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition dating as far back as the Middle Ages 🗡🕯🛡
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✝️ Its origins come from the Biblical tale of Jesus’s Last Supper and Crucifixion. According to the story, Judas was the 13th member at the table on the 13th of Nisan the night he betrayed Jesus. He died the next day on Good Friday ⠀
✨ This superstition has proliferated its way through American culture through Christianity as far back as the 14th century⏳⠀
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🖋 Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales wrote, “On a Friday fell all this mischance.”🥀⠀
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💀Some believe that the fear of the number 13 comes from numerology. Numerologists consider the number 12 to be a complete number, with 13 considered useless
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🙀Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13 and has created traditions such as architects skipping the 13th floor when designing buildings, 🌇in an effort to avoid bad luck, or restaurateurs missing out the 13th table 🍽 🌬In Norse legend, there were 12 people sharing a meal in Valhalla when a 13th person, Loki (not the Marvel character but the spirit of strife) crashed the dinner and one person ended up dead⚡️⠀
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😱 Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th, from the Greek words Paraskeví (Παρασκευή, meaning “Friday”), and Dekatreís (δεκατρείς, meaning “Thirteen”). 🤔 According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, NC, an estimated 17 to 21 million people in the U.S. are affected by a fear of this day, making it the most feared day and date in history. ⠀
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😳Some people are so paralyzed by fear that they avoid their normal routines in doing business, taking flights or even getting out of bed. It’s been estimated that $800 or $900 million is lost in business on this day😧⠀
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Sources: Newsweek & Wiki⠀
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☺️ How about you? Is this your lucky or unlucky day?

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