Within western culture, the Friday 13 is considered a date with negative or bad charge luck. However, few know what is behind this popular belief.
Regardless of the month or year, this date It is linked to negative events They have marked the story, reinforcing old superstitions and inciting people not to perform important plans or activities on this day.
Know that there is behind the belief of Friday 13!
According to Catholicism, on Friday the 13th is related to the Last Supper and Crucifixion of Jesus.Wikipedia
The origin of Friday 13
Although there is no single theory, the origin of Friday 13 and his association with negativity and bad luck is a combination of religious and cultural beliefs.
According to Catholicism, Friday is in bad luck because it was the day of the week when Jesus was crucified. Also, in the Last Supper 13 people gathered, that is, the 12 apostles and Jesus.
On the other hand, writers and philosophers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries as Geoffrey Chaucer They described Friday as a «Day of misfortune» In famous works such as Canterbury storiesalthough I did not explain why.
Subsequently, Thomas Lawson public Friday, The Thirteenth In the twentieth century, a work that deals with a stockbroker that chooses this day to deliberately collapses the stock market.
And finally, in the 1980s, the popularity of the Cinematographic franchise Friday 13 He joined the cultural phenomenon around this date.
Writers like Geoffrey Chaucer, associated Friday with bad luck in works such as «Canterbury stories.»Amazon
Unfortunate events
Out of religious beliefs, they have existed Unfortunate events Throughout the story that have happened on Friday 13.