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icymist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-13-09 09:26 PM
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Origins of Friday the 13th
For the quixotic, there is no single day of the year more terrifying than Friday the 13th. As the popular superstition goes, bad luck is sure to befall a person on this day. Sometimes, in more extreme cases, it even ends in the death of that person or a loved one. According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute, up to 21 million people in the United States today suffer from a morbid and irrational fear of Friday the 13th. What’s more, each year contains at least one Friday the 13th, and for paraskevidekatriaphobics (people intensely afraid of Friday the 13th), 2009 was an especially dreadful year, sporting three: one in February, March, and November.
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PADemD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-14-09 12:01 AM
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1. Friday, October 13, 1307 was a very unlucky day for the Knights Templar.
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