There is a
superstition that a
Friday occurring on the 13th day of any month is a day of
bad luck in
English,
French,
German,
Polish,
Bulgarian,
Portuguese and
Norwegian-speaking cultures around the globe.Similar
superstitions exist in some other traditions. In
Greece,
Romanian and
Spanish-speaking countries, for example, it is Tuesday the 13th that is considered unlucky.The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia, a word that is derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Παρασκευή, δεκατρείς, and φοβία, meaning Friday, thirteen, and phobia respectively; alternative spellings include paskevodekatriaphobia or paraskevidekatriaphobia, and is a specialized form of
triskaidekaphobia, a
phobia (fear) of the number
thirteen.
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