Editor's Blog Jan 13th 2012
Today is Friday The 13th. Many will go through the day not giving the day any more thought than what choice of underpants to wear; but for some Friday the 13th will induce a fear so strong that they would not even consider getting out of bed, or even travelling, Costing business’s millions.
Friggatriskaidekaphobia as it is known, is a relatively new superstition, at least in human terms, as we have always held a fear for almost everything. (I used to know a fully-grown man that would run at the sight of wire wool)
The first recorded reference to Friday the 13th being unlucky according to my brief research, in the English language, occurs in Henry Sutherlands Edwards 1869 biography of Gioacchino Rossini, with no reference prior to that.
One Theory states, that it’s a merging of two earlier superstitions that thirteen is an unlucky number and that Friday is an unlucky day.
As a former military person I find it extremely difficult to believe that Success or failure is apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions, In life at least.
Now where did I leave my lucky rabbit’s foot?
