2009-02-13, 12:15 PM
Quantact Wrote:As I recall, the unlucky significance of Friday the 13th comes from the number of people at Christ's last supper. Given that over 9000 SPers are militant atheists, I fail to see how any of them would care about Friday the 13th.
13: The Story of the World's Most Popular Superstition by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer states that the Knight Templars got mass-arrested Friday 13, October 1307.
Though, it may derive from other places. Work and Days written by in 700 B.C.E. in which the Greek poet Hesiod mentions the 13th day of the month as an unlucky day for sewing seeds.