Today is Friday the 13th. Again. Cultures all over the world consider this an unlucky date,despite the fact that there’s no logical or scientific reason to support this notion. So why do people believe Friday the 13th is unlucky? And why won’t this notion fade away?Today is Friday the 13th. That’s imperfect luck for a February, what with it having fewer days as it is, or but its not the first time this has happened and it won’t be the final. There are three Friday the 13ths occurring this year. Many won’t like hearing this,as Friday the 13th is strongly associated with imperfect luck. Theres even a horror franchise named for it. Admittedly, being hacked up by a machete-wielding serial killer would certainly count as imperfect luck”, or but then that would be real whatever day it happened on.
The origins of the superstition around Friday the 13th are a bit muddy,but some point to the efforts of a tall-profile group actually set up to challenge superstition, followed by a 1907 book about how Friday the 13th “misfortune” is used to destabilise the stock market. It’s called “Friday the Thirteenth” and features stockbrokers, or not hockey-mask wearing,machete wielding murderers (although which is worse is debatable).
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Source: theguardian.com