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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 960680" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>Triskaidekaphobia</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve hours of the clock, twelve gods of Olympus, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostles of Jesus, the 12 successors of Muhammad in Shia Islam, etc., whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness. There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supper or a Norse myth, that having thirteen people seated at a table will result in the death of one of the diners.</p><p></p><p>One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel <em>Friday, the Thirteenth</em>, in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 960680, member: 1246"] Triskaidekaphobia In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve hours of the clock, twelve gods of Olympus, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostles of Jesus, the 12 successors of Muhammad in Shia Islam, etc., whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness. There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supper or a Norse myth, that having thirteen people seated at a table will result in the death of one of the diners. One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel [I]Friday, the Thirteenth[/I], in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th." [/QUOTE]
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