[Loch-Ruadh] Friday the 13th

[Polydore]

And my brother's birthday, as well...
PP!

Clint Gallon wrote:

> Loki strikes again ... :)
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> -- Cathal
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> On 5/13/05, *Cat* <fem_cat at yahoo.com <mailto:fem_cat at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Just something read online that I thought I would
>     share considering today's date.
>
>     Everyone have an interesting day!
>
>     ~Puck~
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>     Ominous Number
>
>     So how did Friday the 13th become such an unlucky day?
>
>     Dossey, also a folklore historian and author of
>     Holiday Folklore, Phobias and Fun, said fear of Friday
>     the 13th is rooted in ancient, separate bad-luck
>     associations with the number 13 and the day Friday.
>     The two unlucky entities ultimately combined to make
>     one super unlucky day.
>
>     Dossey traces the fear of 13 to a Norse myth about 12
>     gods having a dinner party at Valhalla, their heaven.
>     In walked the uninvited 13th guest, the mischievous
>     Loki. Once there, Loki arranged for Hoder, the blind
>     god of darkness, to shoot Balder the Beautiful, the
>     god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped
>     arrow.
>
>     "Balder died and the whole Earth got dark. The whole
>     Earth mourned. It was a bad, unlucky day," said
>     Dossey. From that moment on, the number 13 has been
>     considered ominous and foreboding.
>
>     There is also a biblical reference to the unlucky
>     number 13. Judas, the apostle who betrayed Jesus, was
>     the 13th guest to the Last Supper.
>
>     Meanwhile, in ancient Rome, witches reportedly
>     gathered in groups of 12. The 13th was believed to be
>     the devil.
>
>     Thomas Fernsler, an associate policy scientist in the
>     Mathematics and Science Education Resource Center at
>     the University of Delaware in Newark, said the number
>     13 suffers because of its position after 12.
>
>     According to Fernsler, numerologists consider 12 a
>     "complete" number. There are 12 months in a year, 12
>     signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of
>     Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, and 12 apostles of
>     Jesus.
>
>     In exceeding 12 by 1, Fernsler said 13's association
>     with bad luck "has to do with just being a little
>     beyond completeness. The number becomes restless or
>     squirmy."
>
>     This fear of 13 is strong in today's world. According
>     to Dossey, more than 80 percent of high-rises lack a
>     13th floor. Many airports skip the 13th gate.
>     Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13.
>
>     On streets in Florence, Italy, the house between
>     number 12 and 14 is addressed as 12 and a half. In
>     France socialites known as the quatorziens
>     (fourteeners) once made themselves available as 14th
>     guests to keep a dinner party from an unlucky fate.
>
>     Many triskaidekaphobes, as those who fear the unlucky
>     integer are known, point to the ill-fated mission to
>     the moon, Apollo 13.
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>     As for Friday, it is well known among Christians as
>     the day Jesus was crucified. Some biblical scholars
>     believe Eve tempted Adam with the forbidden fruit on
>     Friday. Perhaps most significant is a belief that Abel
>     was slain by Cain on Friday the 13th.
>
>     "Oops! My karma ran over your dogma!"
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