Paraskevidekatriaphobia
Do you suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia? If you do then tomorrow is definitely a day when you will want to stay in bed all day, not that that will protect you from the ills of Friday, the 13th since you fear just that, Friday, the 13th.
Be assured Saturday the 14th will be the next day and you will be out of danger. Whew!
The reboot of the movie, “Friday, the 13th” was to premier tomorrow, but the whole movie was cancelled.
The number 13 has long been associated with chills and fears. The number 12 is considered complete and 13 is the odd number. 12 months in a year, 12 hours on most clock faces’ although we have 24 hours in a day, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 people on a jury, 12 apostles some historians say that the 13th visitor to the Last Supper was Judas. Hotels and buildings have no 13th floor, addresses skip 12 to 14, no 13th gate at the airport, no row 13 on an airplane.
The widow of the founder of the Winchester Rifle Company was convinced she would not meet the same fate as her husband and her child who died untimely deaths if she continuously built a house 24 hours a day beginning in 1884 and ending in 1922 at her death.
With her vast inheritance—over 20 million dollars in 1881—she was able to spend $23,000 a day in our money to build the Winchester House in San Jose, California to appease the gods, 13 palm trees line the driveway, 13 panes in the windows, 13 bathrooms, rooms built within rooms, doors to no where.
On the morning of the great San Francisco earthquake in 1904, the workers were installing the front door. The widow ordered it nailed shut and never to be opened even to a United States President who visited her. Great and fun tour if you are ever in that area. “Winchester,” the movie, starring Helen Mirren will open in February, 2018.
You still have time to get out your good luck charms. Don’t throw any hats on beds. Avoid those black cats. Don’t open any umbrellas indoors, don’t rock any rocking chairs with no one in it, walk under any ladders, stepping on a grave, breaking a mirror, a bird flying into your house. And definitely don’t read, Edgar Allan Poe’s story, “The Black Cat.”
All in fun, good luck to all!