For spooky people everywhere, Friday the 13th has taken on the life of a holiday. Parties, tattoo specials, horror movies, and mostly around the belief that Friday is either lucky or unlucky. There’s no 13th floor in buildings, 13th aisle on airplanes. It’s Taylor Swift’s famously lucky number, yet there’s still a phobia, triskaidekaphobia, named for people who are afraid of the number 13. So which is it? And why is it associated with witches??
Friday the 13th’s exact unlucky origins are unclear.
In modern times, Friday the 13th is often associated with the movie, Friday the 13th. And honestly, it has nothing to do with the number, the day or witches and more so to do with frisky teens who aren’t attending to their summer camp jobs.
Modern witchcraft has really reclaimed the number 13 from its unlucky origins and associations with witches. In the 50s and 60s with the rise of Wicca and paganism up to now, many believe that 13 was the ideal number of coven members, likely because of the sort of 13 (its like 12 and some fractions or something) lunar phases in a year.
The association with witchcraft and Friday the 13th is also sort of unclear. Some believe it has to do with the witch trials when some were forced to “confess” that they met with their covens on Good Friday as like an insult to the puritans or … Click here to read the rest of this article – Source: xristiwitch.com
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