08 March 2015

Triskaidekaphobia

Rico says that, yet again, March is a month with a Friday the 13th, so it's time for the explanation again:
Triskaidekaphobia (from the Greek tris meaning "3", kai meaning "and", deka meaning "10" and phobos meaning "fear" or "morbid fear") is fear of the number thirteen and the avoidance of using it; it is a superstition and related to the specific fear of the thirteenth person at the Last Supper being Judas, who was said to have stabbed Jesus Christ in the back (metaphorically). It is also a reason for the fear of Friday the 13th, called paraskevidekatriaphobia (from Παρασκευή Paraskevi, Greek for Friday) or friggatriskaidekaphobia (after Frigg, the Norse goddess after whom Friday is named in English).

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