May 13 marks the one and only Friday the 13th of 2022 — a day that tends to evoke a range of emotions for the superstitious. FOX13
. Though this was likely a clerical error, superstitious people sometimes point to this as proof of the number’s negative associations.
In Western lore, experts believe the fear over 13 started in the Bible. Thirteen guests attended the Last Supper, including Jesus and his 12 apostles — one of whom, Judas, betrayed him. The next day was Good Friday, the day of Jesus’ crucifixion. The Last Supper seating arrangement is believed to have created a Christian superstition that having 13 guests at a table was a bad omen, according to the site.explains. Jesus was crucified on a Friday.
FILE - The number 13 is shown on a park bench in a file image taken on March 1, 2018, in Gera, Germany. In the late-19th century, a New Yorker named Captain William Fowler sought to remove the stigma surrounding the number 13 by founding an exclusive society called the Thirteen Club, according to the History Channel.
The group dined on the 13th day of the month in room 13 of the Knickerbocker Cottage, which he owned andAccording to History.com, several former U.S. presidents — Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison and Theodore Roosevelt — were members at one point or another.Many people also suffer from triskaidekaphobia, defined as the irrational fear of the number 13.
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