Pynk Fairy Wyngs
06-13-2008, 07:28 AM
Friday the 13th is considered a day of bad luck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck) in English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language)-, French (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language)- and Portuguese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language)-speaking countries around the world, as well as in Austria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria), Germany (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany), Estonia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia), Finland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland), The Netherlands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Netherlands), Belgium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium), Republic of Ireland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland), Poland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland), Bulgaria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria), Denmark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark), Iceland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland), Sweden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden), Norway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway), Czech Republic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic), Slovakia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia), Slovenia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia), Hungary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary), and the Philippines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines).
Similar superstitions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition) exist in some other traditions. In Greece (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece), Romania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania) and Spanish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language)-speaking countries, for example, it is Tuesday the 13th that is considered unlucky. In Italy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy), it is Friday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday) the 17th.
The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia,[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th#cite_note-0), a word derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (Παρασκευή) (meaning Friday), and dekatreís (δεκατρείς) (meaning thirteen), attached to phobía (φοβία) (meaning fear). The term is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskaidekaphobia), a simple phobia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobia) (fear) of the number thirteen appearing in any case.
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Similar superstitions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition) exist in some other traditions. In Greece (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece), Romania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania) and Spanish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language)-speaking countries, for example, it is Tuesday the 13th that is considered unlucky. In Italy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy), it is Friday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday) the 17th.
The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia,[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th#cite_note-0), a word derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (Παρασκευή) (meaning Friday), and dekatreís (δεκατρείς) (meaning thirteen), attached to phobía (φοβία) (meaning fear). The term is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskaidekaphobia), a simple phobia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobia) (fear) of the number thirteen appearing in any case.
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