It's Friday the 13th today!
The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskevidekatriaphobia, a word derived from the concatenation of the
Greek words Paraskevi (Friday) and dekatreis (thirteen), attached to phobia (fear).
The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskevidekatriaphobia, a word derived from the concatenation of the
Greek words Paraskevi (Friday) and dekatreis (thirteen), attached to phobia (fear).
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, 13th of November, 1868, he died.
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