At my age, I’ve experienced many Friday the 13THs. It was during my high school days when I got to know the bad luck, that day brings. Filipinos by nature are superstitious, there are also other nationalities have the same superstitious belief.

The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia, a word derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (meaning Friday), and dekatreís (meaning thirteen), attached to phobía (meaning fear). The term is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a simple phobia (fear) of the number thirteen appearing in any case.

Determining the origin and history of Friday the 13th [...]

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