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So it's another Friday 13th. Is it me or does there seem to be more of these at the moment?
Anyway. Who here is superstitious? Anyone hide under the covers at the thought of getting up today? Do you let black cats cross your path?
What puzzles me is that people just take superstition as red and don't look into the history behind them. Some have a very interesting history and others are puzzling at best.
Take Friday 13th, a relatively modern superstition from the late 19th Century (1869 seems to be the first record of it existing). It actually stems from two other superstitions; Friday being an unlucky day for Christians as this is the day that Jesus was believed to be crucified and 13 being the 13th apostle, Judas.
Outside of religion, according to Wikipedia, 12 is considered the perfect number in numerology "whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness"
Letting a black cat cross your path is to do with the belief that black cats were the familiars of witches,
Do you have a favourite superstition?
Anyway. Who here is superstitious? Anyone hide under the covers at the thought of getting up today? Do you let black cats cross your path?
What puzzles me is that people just take superstition as red and don't look into the history behind them. Some have a very interesting history and others are puzzling at best.
Take Friday 13th, a relatively modern superstition from the late 19th Century (1869 seems to be the first record of it existing). It actually stems from two other superstitions; Friday being an unlucky day for Christians as this is the day that Jesus was believed to be crucified and 13 being the 13th apostle, Judas.
Outside of religion, according to Wikipedia, 12 is considered the perfect number in numerology "whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness"
Letting a black cat cross your path is to do with the belief that black cats were the familiars of witches,
Do you have a favourite superstition?
Probably more acceptable than 4 black money spiders though.
I've got 4 black cats. Amusing to think I might be inflicting bad luck on people who live within viewing distance of my cats. :-)
The money spider superstition is due to the spiders way of spinning webs often meaning they end up in people's hair. The saying used to go that they were spinning people new clothes meaning they become more fortunate, which was later simplified as giving a person money.
I spotted a money spider crawling on me yesterday but somehow I still seem to be skint...? :S
For some ;¬)
Well that was unlucky!
pb wrote:
Do you have a favourtie superstition?
Making sure that I spell Frdiay 13th correctly in the Thread Title haha :¬D
Morning pb ;¬)
Do you have a favourtie superstition?
Making sure that I spell Frdiay 13th correctly in the Thread Title haha :¬D
Morning pb ;¬)
So it's another Friday 13th. Is it me or does there seem to be more of these at the moment?
Anyway. Who here is superstitious? Anyone hide under the covers at the thought of getting up today? Do you let black cats cross your path?
What puzzles me is that people just take superstition as red and don't look into the history behind them. Some have a very interesting history and others are puzzling at best.
Take Friday 13th, a relatively modern superstition from the late 19th Century (1869 seems to be the first record of it existing). It actually stems from two other superstitions; Friday being an unlucky day for Christians as this is the day that Jesus was believed to be crucified and 13 being the 13th apostle, Judas.
Outside of religion, according to Wikipedia, 12 is considered the perfect number in numerology "whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness"
Letting a black cat cross your path is to do with the belief that black cats were the familiars of witches,
Do you have a favourite superstition?
Anyway. Who here is superstitious? Anyone hide under the covers at the thought of getting up today? Do you let black cats cross your path?
What puzzles me is that people just take superstition as red and don't look into the history behind them. Some have a very interesting history and others are puzzling at best.
Take Friday 13th, a relatively modern superstition from the late 19th Century (1869 seems to be the first record of it existing). It actually stems from two other superstitions; Friday being an unlucky day for Christians as this is the day that Jesus was believed to be crucified and 13 being the 13th apostle, Judas.
Outside of religion, according to Wikipedia, 12 is considered the perfect number in numerology "whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness"
Letting a black cat cross your path is to do with the belief that black cats were the familiars of witches,
Do you have a favourite superstition?