What is the origin of fear on Friday the 13th?

arielpr (52)in #culture • 7 years ago

We play wood when we talk about something we do not want to happen, we flee from black cats, we cross our fingers, we get scared if a mirror is broken or salt is spilled and when it approaches Friday the 13th... many think something terrible is going to happen . According to statistics, the fear of Friday the 13th is the list of those irrational beliefs that we call superstitions and that, nevertheless, end up influencing us.

The superstition of Friday the 13th has crossed generations, peoples and cultures. There are people who really suffer when this date approaches, because they suffer phobias directly related to this superstition. In this question many factors affect, especially the psychological ones; Although like almost everything, this superstition has a real origin, historical facts that have contributed to generate fear to this date.

On Friday, October 13, 1307 (time of the Templars). According to historical records, that day, under the orders of King Philip IV of France, a Knights Templar order was captured and tried by the Holy Inquisition, for alleged crimes against Christianity. That same night, a huge massacre took place: all the captured Templars were killed by burning them at the stake or decapitating them. Only a few could live to tell. Since then, Friday the 13th was considered a terrible day, of fear and bad luck.

The Catholic religion, once again, contributes its grain of sand. At the Last Supper there were thirteen people: twelve apostles and Jesus. Judas is considered the traitor as number 13

In the old Scandinavian beliefs and, above all, in the folk tales of Norway, 13 is a sinister number. A Scandinavian legend tells that at a dinner of gods in the Valhalla, Loki, the spirit of evil, was guest number 13.

In Revelation chapter 13 corresponds to the antichrist and the beast;

Similarly, the number 13 also has obscure and evil connotations in other areas related to superstition, such as tarot, cabal and so on. It is not strange that with such a bad name, in the Tarot, 13 represents death and eternal misfortune.

Obviously all these facts do not justify the bad fame of the date, because terrible events, have occurred in many other dates. Despite this, there are strange diseases related to this date. The Paraskevidekatryphobia or Friggatriskaidekaphobia (although you can not pronounce it) is the irrational phobia or fear on Friday the 13th.

This phobia develops in a considerable number of people from all over the world and as stupid as it may seem to us, the fear of this day and the degree of suggestion that it has in people comes to cause more accidents than on other days of the year.