Friday, 13. day of march… another unlucky day?
It's Friday today 13. Co 11 Years 13 the day of the month on Friday is until 3 times a year. This is what it is like in 2009. One unlucky date is behind us. The third one is waiting for us in November. Seems, that everyone avoids the number 13. Today, this fear is best seen in construction. Hospitals do not have such a room, skyscrapers do not have such a floor. The building of Telekomunikacja Polska does not have a z button “13” in the elevator… The infamous number 13 it has already appeared in the Bible. In turn, Friday was considered unlucky in the Middle Ages. Since then, superstition is fine. Is strong – so, that the disease was described, the symptom of which is fear of the number 13. Many prominent figures suffered from triskaidecaphobia. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not travel on the 13th of the month. When he invited guests, cared, that it does not sit at the table 13 people. When there was such a danger, the politician would invite his secretary to the meal. Napoleon and Richard Wagner, among others, suffered from a similar phobia. For a time in Paris there was a profession called “fourteenth”, that is the professional fourteenth guest at the party. In numerology 13 she is unlucky herself – we have a number right in front of it 12, which is considered to be the embodiment of the ideal – we have 12 months, 12 eggs in a dozen, 12 signs of the zodiac do 12 the apostles.
– Numerology can find meaning in an individual's life by discovering the number cycle, in which the unit is located. Certain numbers attract people by acting on their subconscious mind – says the American Sonia Ducie, professional numerologist. However, mathematicians do not believe it. Interestingly – worst day of the year discovered by scientists had nothing to do with an unlucky number 13.