Dammit!! Friday the 13th of all days!
paraskavedekatriaphobia = fear of friday the thirteenth
Just knowing that this word/disorder exists makes me wonder if I want to go to & memorize things like this at med school
a little history......
There is an old Roman tradition that states if 13 people sit down to dinner together, all will die within the year.
The Turks so disliked the number 13 that it was practically expunged from their vocabulary.
Many US cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue.
Many US buildings don't have a 13th floor.
Another theory that is you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck (Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13 letters in their names). DAMMIT I HAVE 13 LETTERS IN MY NAME!
There are 13 witches in a coven.
It has been theorized that fears surrounding the number 13 are as ancient as the act of counting. Primitive hunter/gatherer man had only his 10 fingers and two feet to represent units, this explanation goes, so he could count no higher than 12. What lay beyond that — 13 — was an mystery to our prehistoric forebears, hence an object of superstition.
If this to prove the point, the Bible tells us there were exactly 13 present at the Last Supper. One of the dinner guests — er, disciples — betrayed Jesus Christ, setting the stage for the Crucifixion.
Did I mention the Crucifixion took place on a Friday?