FRIDAY
13th
(Investigator 5, 1989
March)
Channel 7's
all night
"Horrorthon" on Friday
13th in January consisted of BLACK FRIDAY, THE BRIDES OF DRACULA, and
THE
MUMMY.
Other horror
movies
during that week included
SCREAM OF FEAR, DON'T GO TO SLEEP, GHOULIES, BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS,
THE MUMMY'S SHROUD, and THE HUNGER.
Adelaide's
Skeptics
don't fear Friday the
13th. They meet annually on a Friday the 13th and satisfy their
"hunger"
with a 13-course meal –
so far without mishap.
The
Advertiser
(S.A.) 1985 December
13 reported:
An
English
professor who has studied
the histories of December 12 and Friday the 13th says that,
according to superstition, they are the luckiest and unluckiest days.
Mr Steve
Glosecki, of
the University of Alabama
at Birmingham, noted that December 12 falls in the 12th
month,
which supposedly makes it the best day of the year for several reasons.
Twelve is
divisible by
three, the number
associated with the Holy Trinity. Three is also considered good because
it is a prime number…
Mr Glosecki
also
pointed to the 12 days of
Christmas, 12 zodiac signs, 12 major Greco-Roman gods, 12 apostles of
Jesus,
and 12 tribes of Israel.
However,
Friday the 13th
is supposed
to be doubly bad – because it is both Friday and the 13th.
Thirteen is
a satanic
number…says Mr Glosecki…
"Thirteen breaks the perfection. It's one beyond the perfect number,
the
number of completion and fulness."
Friday
itself is
considered evil because
of the reaction of early Christians to pagan beliefs that the day was
one
for unbridled self-indulgence.
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