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by Spixxy on February 12th, 2004

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What is the superstition behind Friday the 13th?

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  • by Miranda on July 22nd, 2004

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    This superstition is not just Christian: it appears in Norse mythology, and also in 'Pagan' ideas. Check out Ronald Hutton for the latter, he may mention it in 'The Ritual Year in England' but certainly in 'The Stations of the Sun'. Hutton is brilliant for information on the history of many ideas that we might consider Christian, and shows the way in which Christianity absorbed or took ownership of many non-Christian ideas. The thing is that once an idea has become part of popular logic, it is easily reinforced. Unpleasant things happen every day of the year, yet when one of these events happens on Friday 13, every newspaper and TV station in western society remarks on it! And by the way: the earliest (and I might add, conflicting, but then, they were recorded a few hundred years after the event) reports of the Crucifixion do NOT say that it was on a Friday. This idea came in much later, probably to ensure that celebration of the Resurrection took place on a Sunday, and thus a legal day off.

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    • The Synoptics all agree that Jesus was crucified on a Friday; the argument for the Crucifixion on Thursday is based entirely on a single, ambiguous, poetic, and misinterpreted clause in John.

      Stormarm

      by Stormarm on August 18th, 2010

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