The number 13 has been considered unlucky for a long time, and by people all over the world. The early Romans thought 13 was a sign of death and destruction. And according to Norse mythology, if you sat 13 people down at a table, that was very unlucky. (Why? At a banquet of 12 people in Valhalla, an intruder –number 13 – caused the death of Balder’s son Odin). The number of people at the last supper of Christ and the twelve Apostles confirmed the superstition about the number 13 in withes were believed to meet in “covens” that hat 13 members. The fear of the number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia. Many hotels have no room 13, and many buildings have no 13th floor. Next time you fly, see if there is a row 13 in the plane. As date, 13 isn’t too lucky either, especially when it falls on Friday. That was always thought of as a really bad day to start a new project or to begin a ship voyage. Movers, doctors and dentists say their business drops on Friday the 13th. The good news is that a maximum of three Friday the 13th can occur in a year, and sometimes there is just one.

The Roman numerals for the number thirteen is a witches symbol. Draw the X for the ten but put the three I's over it (it then looks like a square box with a line down the middle and an 'x' in it.)

Alot of the fear of the number 13 can be traced to how the ancients viewed the phases of the moon. Normally there would be 12 cycles of the moon during the year, but there would be years where there were 13 phases of the moon. The 13th moon was considered foreign and symbolic of things not normal or in the natural order of things. 13 was a mystical number that did not always bode well for people Some cultures were so influenced by the phases of the moon that the number 13 was included in all of their business and personal dealings in one manner or another. I took a class in biblical archeology once and the instructor brought in some clay tablets from areas around UR and these tablets were contracts and included in the transcript of the translations were allusions to the number 13. Having worked on the ES-202 Program as the senior analyst for 14 years at the Bureau of Labor Statistics---which was the employment and wages database for the nation based on quarterly unemployment insurance tax forms---I was highly involved in all the statistical programs within BLS and other federal agencies. The computation of current value based on inflation over time is a simple mathematical formula, as is predicitive future value. Get over it and move one.....specifically to this one question, Solar/Lunar years do not matter---at certain times we have 13 cycles of the moon in a year and this was in part worshipped by the ancients to include the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Gaelic peoples and a whole host of other peoples in the world. The issue of 13 was not a solar/lunar year, but with the passing of the seasons, they were fairly evenly divided---

Usually considered an unlucky number, this double-digit represents Judas, who was the guest at the Last Supper who betrayed Jesus. As a result it is also thought to be unlucky to have a dinner party with 13 guests. Many hotels are missing a thirteenth floor or have omitted the number from their room doors. Gods associated with the number 13 are Hades, the Greek God of the Underworld and Pluto, the Roman God of Underworld. The color associated with the number 13 is black. Some common superstitions about the number 13 are: It is unlucky to have an address with the number 13. It is also unlucky to have 13 numbers in your name. Friday the 13th of any month is said to be an unlucky day. The moon that falls thirteen days after the New Moon in August is considered to be an unlucky day. Washing your hair on the 13th of the month ensures that you will give birth to a son. http://www.newagenotebook.com/Numerology/holy-and-unholy-numbers/

The sixth day of the week and the number 13 both have foreboding reputations said to date from ancient times, and their inevitable conjunction from one to three times a year portends more misfortune than some credulous minds can bear. Some sources say it may be the most widespread superstition in the United States. Some people won't go to work on Friday the 13th; some won't eat in restaurants; many wouldn't think of setting a wedding on the date. Just how many Americans at the turn of the millennium still suffer from this condition? According to Dr. Donald Dossey, a psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of phobias (and coiner of the term "paraskevidekatriaphobia"), the figure may be as high as 21 million. If he's right, eight percent of Americans are still in the grips of a very old superstition. Exactly how old is difficult to say, because determining the origins of superstitions is an imprecise science, at best. In fact, it's mostly guesswork.

There are many explanations. One explanation is that the number 13 brings bad luck because there were 13 people present at "The Last Supper" in the Bible. Another story comes from Norse mythology. One of the nastiest Norse gods, "Loki", crashed a party at "Valhalla." Valhalla was the "banquet hall of the gods." There were 12 guests present at the hall until Loki arrived. With the mean-spirited Norse god as the 13th guest, the affair turned grim. The story goes that "Balder", "the god of light, joy, and reconciliation", died when Loki tricked Balder's sightless brother Hod into throwing mistletoe at him. Just like Kryptonite to Superman, Mistletoe, you see, was the only thing on earth that could kill Balder. The famous mystery writer Agatha Christie (1890-1976) actually capitalized on the superstition that surrounds the number 13 when she penned 13 short stories and put them in a book titled, "The Thirteen Problems" in 1933. Each story featured her busybody sleuth, "Miss Jane Marple." Christie did it again when she wrote the mystery, "Thirteen at Dinner", which starred Peter Ustinov and Faye Dunaway. It hit the movie screen in 1985. Whether 13 is actually an unlucky number or not will forever remain a mystery. There are many truths about the number 13, though. For example, it is a prime number. That means that it is only divisible -without there being a remainder- by the number 1 and itself. It is also a "Fibonacci Number." A Fibonaci Number can be defined as "a number that is the sum of the two preceding numbers." If you begin with 0 and 1, the sequence would run 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,45,79, and so on. (Thanks to associatedcredit.com for the answer)

i dont know y they say that 13 is unluky. its my luky number but then some say that witch is my name and witch craft is my game although i disagree. kt the name and fightings the game but thats just my thoughts

Well, I think it stems from the whole Friday the 13th thing. If you don't know where that comes from, I don't know where you've been lately. It was the day (night) that the French massacre of the Knights Templar took place. I'm not sure, but I think the other unlucky thirteens derived from that as well.

I heard that it's because The leader of the Knight Templar, Demolay, was arrested and executed on Friday the 13th back in the 14th or 15th century. Also there 13 steps on a gallows.

13 IS MY LUCKY NUMBER ! I never had bad luck with it, only GOOD !

666 isn't really unlucky. it is the numbeer of the anti-christ. 13 is unlucky for a number of reasons. it just depends in what culture you look through. many times it is because it is the number of full moons in a year. heres a wikipedia page about it. there is a whole section about it alittle bit down the page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_(number)

i think the unluckness about it is that it happens only once a year and that one person had an imeasurable bad day, that day and the people around him though it to be so, and soon that though radiated out and now everone thinks that

I don't know, but my grandmother always considered it to be her lucky day because she was born on Friday the 13th.

When people ask for my "lucky" number I add the digits my year of birth together and then do the same with the result. 76: 7+6 = 13 13: 1+3 = 4 My lucky number is 4. So as 13 is a step I have to go through to get to my lucky number, I suppose it's lucky itself. As Black Francis once said: "If man is 5, then the devil is 6. And if the devil is 6, then god is 7." You have to go through that middle bit...

In a sense. I found myself attracted recently to someone aged 13. I can't tell you how much that haunts me. :(

I have no issue with the number 13 :)

I love the number thirteen...i was born 13 days after i was due the 13th and a lot of the loveliest things in my life happened on that day - including my engagement. And i spent some of the happiest years of my childhood in a house numbered 13.

yes

nope not really its my favorite number lol i believe i was born i think like on friday the 13 on october lol

Nope, in my opinion it is a somewhat balanced number between good and evil. 7 = godly 6 = ungodly..

No. "Bad luck" only haunts those who believe in it.

no way the only number that scares me is 666 i hate it

Not at all, I had my bar mitzva at 13 and got some great gifts :)

It is said to have started on Friday night, Oct 13, 1307 when the King of France had all the Templar knights arrested for heresy. He had been turned down as a Templar before taking the throne and never got over it. However, the thing he wanted most was their incredible wealth so he had a secret decree sent to all parts of France to have them arrested at the same time so they could not get word and escape. Many did and went to Scotland, Spain and parts of now what is Poland and the Ukraine. Many that were caught were tortured until they would admit heresy and they still died and/or were burned but he never got to their wealth.

Friday the 13th is the last day of Chaos in God's plan. There's 2 weeks in God's plan. We're currently a few seconds after midnight into the 14th day... That day in which you know not at what hour the Master will return.

Because it is a combination of two bad luck elements. Friday was considered a bad day because that was the day prisoners on death row were put to death (which is bad if you are a prisoner) and also was the day the king collected taxes. Friday is also a bad day because it is the day Christ was killed. 13 is a bad luck number for a lot of reasons, but the one that comes to mind is that there were 13 people dining at the last supper.

It may go back to ancient Norse mythology according to this site: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/02/0212_040212_friday13.html Also, check out: http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/friday_the_13th.htm

Thirteen may be considered a "bad" number simply because when a group of 13 objects or people is divided into two, three, four or six equal groups, there is always one leftover, or "unlucky", object or person. It was suggested by Charles Platt writing in 1925 that the reason 13 is considered unlucky is that a person can count from 1-12 with their 10 fingers and 2 feet, but not beyond that, so the number 13 is unknown, hence frightening, hence unlucky.[4] This idea discounts the use of toes or other body parts in counting. Some Christian traditions have it that at the Last Supper, Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th to sit at the table. According to another interpretation, the number 13 is unlucky because it is the number of full moons in a contemporary year, but two full moons in a single calendar month (mistakenly referred to as a blue moon in a magazine article of the 1940s) only happens about every 2.5 years. [5] Early nursery rhymes stated there were thirteen months in a year because of the natural moon cycle that was used to count the lunar year. In England, a calendar of thirteen months of 28 days each, plus one extra day, known as "a year and a day" was still in use up to Tudor times. The lunar year was the easiest to count for cultures before scientific methods existed to observe the movement of the earth around the sun, so it was associated with worship of the pagan Great Goddess[citation needed] for thousands of years, which may be another reason for 13 becoming a taboo number. Taboo often is misunderstood when only half of the totem and taboo relationship is recognized. Among religions having totem and taboo characteristics, that which is taboo on a regular basis may become quite sacred on special occasions. In Tarot decks, the 13th card of the Major Arcana is Death. While Death is rarely interpreted literally, it is possible that this furthered the perception of 13 as an unlucky number. Another theory about the origin of Friday the 13th as an unlucky day is attributed to this being the day that the Knights Templar were slaughtered in a collaboration between the king of France and the Pope finishing with the burning at the stake of Jaques De Molay. The legion with which Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon was the Legio XIII Gemina or the 13th legion. If one considers 1 not to be a prime number, then 13 is the 6th prime number. 6 is sometimes considered an unlucky number due to its association with 666. from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_%28number%29

If I played 1313 in the pick 4 and even box it all would be unlucky numberss ...''But'' Im not playing it so it's more like it's a lucky number for now.

Here may be one of the reasons the number 13 is deemed "unlucky": The lunar calendar has thirteen months, and the Julian calendar (the one we use now) only has twelve months. Well, the Christian church made the Julian calendar the standard in order to squash the goddess and earth based religious beliefs of paganism. Now the number thirteen is considered so unlucky that office buildings and hotels won't even admit to having a 13th floor. I read this from the book "The Women's Wheel of Life"

My conception of why the number 13 is considered unlucky has to do with one of the oldest and, at one time, the most universally employed methods of execution: hanging. A properly constructed hangman's noose(for whatever reason) consists of 13 wraps above the noose. Also, because of the height required for the gallows platform, in order for the executed's body to drop without touching the ground, and in order for the distance and force of the sudden stop to be sufficient enough to break the executed's neck(hanging's actual intent for resulting in death,) the number of steps leading to the gallows platform usually ended up being 13.

The cause of this apparently was the observation that Judas, the betrayer of Jesus, made 13 at the table. Other great medieval minds pointed out that "the Jews murmured 13 times against God in the exodus from Egypt, that the thirteenth psalm concerns wickedness and corruption, that the circumcision of Israel occurred in the thirteenth year," and so on. I was shocked when I was a kid to find out that they dont even make 13th floors in buildings anymore, it goes from 12 to 14!

It's said that in the Western world, 13 became unlucky after the Last Supper, where 13 broke bread together, resulting in Jesus' crucifixion on Friday the 13th. But the Vikings have an even older tradition of thirteen at a table foretelling death, cited in a myth where 13 gods gathered for a feast. There, the favorite, Baldur, was murdered http://www.californiapsychics.com/articles/Features/1238/Unlucky_Number.aspx

Also, thirteen was supposed to be the number of people in a witch's coven. Most people though witches to be evil in past days.

No, it's my lucky number actually.

It is equally as lucky as all other numbers.

Not at all.

Don't think so...

lucky!

Normally, no. Last week was not normal though. I went bowling and shot 219. It was a nine pin no tap league where nine pins gets you a strike, but still that's a pretty good score.

nope, i'm not a templar so i have nothing to worry about.

I didnt used to believe in 13 being unlucky but oh how I have changed my mind. I bought and acre and a half and decided to build a house on it and it just happened to be lot 13. It has been 8 years of disaster from the beginning. I have been struck with several disasters from the very begining of my construction of my house. NOTHING went right as far as the building of this house. I have structure problems, concrete is cracking and the house has actually sagged in one section. I had all of the problems fixed and have had the house on the market for 5 years NO LUCK!!!!! Well guess what? I am now facing foreclousre and thank God I will be moving out soon!!!!

There are people whose life work is to sit around and dream up superstitions so that other people will have plausible explanations for the bad things that happen to them or their personal failures. It doesn't pay well, but there is great job security. I've never had any problem with any number - including 13. In fact, I was thrilled to turn 13 and become a teen - although it was awkward. Hey! Maybe that is where it started - with zits and voice change spasms.

I am pretty sure that it originates from "The last supper". Jesus was around with the 12 apostles and the 13th was Judas, and well the rest is history. I think that is the main reason.

13 is my lucky number I was married to my wonderful husband on Friday 13:)

same here I was born on the 13th and all it has done is bring me good luck. I do not know why people should think of 13 a bad luck number. Another question wha is so special about the number 7? I mean it is retarded.

i dont kno =[ and it should be lucky cuz i was born in a 13th...

It's just a silly superstition. In some countries such as Italy it is considered a lucky number. :o)

I've HEARD, but cannot confirm that it originates from the last supper, where they were 13 people dining at the table

i know a band called Lucky 13's =]

Unlucky 13 It is unlucky to have thirteen at a table or in a company. The number 13, in the Christian faith, is the number of people at the Last Supper, with the 13th guest at the table being the traitor, Judas.

The number 13 is considered "unlucky" for many reasons actually. The reason I believe most is because back in later times when people where punished by being hung, there were 13 steps up to to platform you stood on before you were dropped with a rope around your neck. I belive this reason because it is what I hear the most and because when I went to St. Augustine, Florida, I went to the old jail where I counted exactly 13 steps up to the platform where you were hung. If for some reason you don't believe me, check it out for yourself. Oh and yes I belive Friday the 13th is an unlucky number because I went to the ER on that day- horrible memories. Good luck to you all.

While there are many theories about the origin, there is no written evidence of the term "Friday the 13th" prior to the 19th Century. Some theories believe it to be connected to certain superstitions that sitting 13 people at a table will result in the death of one member, or that it is in fact a combination of superstitions about the number 13 and Friday. Indeed, in Europe for several hundred years (at least) prior to the late 19th century all Fridays were considered unlucky, and 13 was considered an unlucky number - at least in terms of the number of people in a group. However, it seems that the superstition concerning these actually predates any known explanation of them - as is typical for "old wives tales", as "old wives" have a tendency to make up reasons/justifications out of their intuition instead of checking into the facts. The Friday superstion originates in Judeo-Christian culture, possibly having to do with either (or both) the idea tha the Fall ocurred on a Friday or that Christ died on a Friday. Because the Jewish Sabbath begins at dusk on Friday, many phobic and anti-semitic Christians saw something particularly sinister and accursed about it. It was believed witches and devil worshippers had their black masses on Fridays. Triskadekaphobia probably originates from the fact that there are 12.38 moons per solar year. As each moon/month was associated with a god or power by the Near Eastern and Greco-Roman cultures, the 13th moon/month/god/power was thought to be "cut off" (dying young), and intercallary months were never thought to be propitious, and therefore arguably unpropicious. The recent Dan Brown novel "The Da Vinci Code" popularized the myth that the superstition is tied to the mass arrest of the Knights Templar ordered by King Philip IV of France, but most scholars believe that theory is a relatively modern day invention. Another theory notes that references to the superstition are nonexistent prior to 1907, and argues that the Thomas Lawson novel "Friday the 13th" is what has given rise to the superstition's popularity. The earliest known reference to the term is from the biography of Italian composer Gioachino Rossini: [Rossini] was surrounded to the last by admiring and affectionate friends; and if it be true that, like so many other Italians, he regarded Friday as an unlucky day, and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that on Friday, the 13th of November, he died. [Henry Sutherland Edwards, The Life of Rossini, 1869, p. 340.] In the end, it would appear that the superstition is a combination of other superstitions concerning Friday and the number 13, being further compounded by popular culture, myth and folklore. Supporting this is the fact that Friday the 13th is actually considered lucky in some cultures. So it depends on where you are as to whether or not it's an unlucky superstition or a lucky day.

It is *considered* unlucky by some, it is *considered* lucky by others, and still others don't give a damn about it... "Friday the 13th occurs when the thirteenth day of a month falls on Friday, which superstition holds to be a day of good or bad luck. In the Gregorian calendar, this day occurs at least once, but at most three times a year." "According to folklorists, there is no written evidence for a "Friday the 13th" superstition before the 19th century.The earliest known documented reference in English occurs in an 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini: [Rossini] was surrounded to the last by admiring and affectionate friends; and if it be true that, like so many other Italians, he regarded Friday as an unlucky day, and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that on Friday, the 13th of November, he died. However, some folklore is passed on through oral traditions. In addition, "determining the origins of superstitions is an inexact science, at best. In fact, it's mostly guesswork." Consequently, several theories have been proposed about the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition." "There are conflicting studies about the risk of accidents on Friday the 13th." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th

I have received a lot of enquiries regarding number 13.It is considered an unlucky number by a vast majority of people.It is seen that the Honourable kerala High court has not a bench numbering 13. I am reproducing below an article written by me in the ASIAN TRIBUNE dated December 26,2006:- NUMBER 13 IS NOT UNLUCKY Tue, 2006-12-26 02:16 M.K. Damodaran - Numerologist, Kerala, India. There is a world wide superstition that No13 is an unlucky number. In fact No13 has scared the lives out of many. But actually, No13 is a very powerful number. The belief that No 13 is unlucky has no numerological basis.My first experiment with No13 was the study of the political fortunes of India’s s former Prime Minister, A.B Vajpayee, who was in the Prime Minister’s office for 3 times. This numerologist has been passionately involved with numerology for the last 18 years and found that there is no reason to isolate No13 as an unfortunate number. Certain numbers are fortunate to certain people .Similarly certain numbers are unfortunate to certain people. There is no number which is fortunate or unfortunate to all. So by that yardstick, No13 may be unfortunate to someone. The theory that number 13 is unlucky may be correct to that extent only. My first experiment with No13 was the study of the political fortunes of India’s former Prime Minister, A.B Vajpayee, who was in the Prime Ministers office for 3 times. Interestingly, he was Prime Minister for 13 days and 13 months during the first and second term respectively. Naturally, after he was voted out of office during the second term many people began to declare that number 13 did not augur well for A.B Vajpayee. At that time I, have predicted that No 13 was lucky for A.B Vajpayee and that he would return as Prime Minister after the election. The prediction was published in “The New Indian Express” daily May 17,1999.The prediction was mainly based on the fact that the upcoming election was for the constitution of the 13th Lok Sabha. Detailed Analysis Full details with which I had prepared the note for prediction are furnished below: Vajpayee was born on Dec 25,1924 . Those born on 7, 16 and 25 of any month have the birth number 7. Because, numbers 16 and 25 individually adds up to 7(1+6=7, 2+5=7).Numbers 1, 2, 4 and 7are generally lucky for such people .But in the case of A.B Vajpayee, number 4 has an additional strength. This is due to the fact that No 4 represents his name number 31 which adds upto4 (3+1=4). No 13 is lucky for him since it adds up to 4 which is his lucky number. What is a name number? In numerology, every name has a number. English alphabet from A to Z is put into 8 groups and each category consists of certain letters. The letters are assigned a particular value from 1 to 8. The groups, letters and value of each letters are as follows: 1. A, I, J, Q,Y =1 2. B, K, R =2 3. C, G, L, S =3 4. D, M, T =4 5. E, H, N, X =5 6 . U, V, W =6 7. O, Z =7 8. F ,P =8 The name number is obtained by adding together the value of the letters of that particular name .Thus the name number of A.B Vajpayee is - A+B+V+A+J+P+A+Y+E+E =1+2+6+1+1+8+1+1+5+5 =31(3+1=4) Other Factors As already pointed out, numbers 1, 2, 4 and 7 are generally lucky or influential for Vajpayee. 1. He first became Prime Minister on May 16 ,1996 .Both the date and year represent number 7,since each of them individually adds up to 7. That is ,16 adds up to 7 (1+6=7) and 1996 also adds up to 7 (1+9+9+6=25,2+5=7) 2. He became Prime Minister for the second time on March 19, 1998 (1+9=10, 1+0=1). 3. During the second term, Vajpayee undertook the historic Lahore trip on Feb 20, 1999(2+0=2). 4.He was Prime Minister for 13 days and 13 months(1+3=4). After showing the influence of numbers I,2,4 and 7 in Vajpayee’s scheme of things, the prediction was summed up as follows: 1.Election is for the 13th Lok Sabha.Since 13 adds up to 4and no 4 is lucky for Vajpayee. The coming election is likely to be in his favors. 2. The election year is 1999 which adds up to 1-his lucky number (1+9+9+9=28, 2+8=10, 1+0=1). 3. In the history of Indian democracy, no person defeated on the floor of the house and who conducted election as caretaker Prime Minister has returned to rule. Vajpayee is likely to ‘break the record as the first person’ (No 1 is lucky for him). Vajpayee returned as Prime Minister after the 13th Lok Sabha election and was sworn in on Oct 13,1999. Months before the election, Vajpayee had escaped a Pak shell attack on June 13, 1999 during the Kargil war. Strangely, during Vajpayee’s third term as Prime Minister the Tehelka expose hit the govt on March 13,2001.Seeing that the expose came on his lucky day, this writer predicted through The New Indian Express daily dated March 20,2001 that Vajpayee will have the last laugh in the issue. Strangely again, the attack on parliament by terrorists was on Dec, 13, 2001.1t did not unnerve Vajpayee. On the contrary, it made him more resolute and much stonger. Just one more example. Shane Warne was born on Sept 13, 1969. It was on July13, 2004 that he equaled Muthiah Muralitharans record with regard to taking the highest number of wickets. Interestingly, Warne is leaving the field after the 4th Ashes series. The above things irrefutably give credence to the fact that number 13 is not an unlucky number. - Asian Tribune - MK DAMODARAN,cheneppurath@gmail.com

On the back of a dollar bill the Eagle's wing has 13 feathers signifying the original 13 colonies of the United States. The Last Supper consisted of Christ and his 12 Deciples. On a more personal note, I don't consider the number 13 unlucky. My birthday is March 13 and I haven't had an unlucky day yet!!!