What is Triskaidekaphobia?

Triskaidekaphobia is often defined as fear of number 13. More precisely, Triskaidekaphobia concerns the unfortunate nature of 13. These superstitions are common in the US and England, but are definitely not global. Instead of Triskaidekaphobia, many Asian countries have superstitions related to number 4, called tetraphobia .

Friday 13. He is considered a particularly unfortunate person and a person who is afraid that this date occurs rather than number 13 suffers from the parasavedatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia . Whether you are afraid of a number or date, there are several reasons why the date is considered to be unlucky.

It is assumed that Triskaidekaphobia had to appear after Christianity, because the first unfortunate association is the belief that there were 13 guests at the last dinner of Christ. Moreover, many believe that Christ was crucified on Friday 13. Christians later summed up that the exclusion of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden took place on the 13th day at the beginning of the days.

Although word, triskaidekaphobia, it was not used until the 19th century, the state itself is dated at least to medieval times. Previously, some believed that number 13 was lucky. The fear of Friday is also clearly determined by the medieval period, mainly because of his close connection with the big Friday, the day most Christians thought about Christ's crucifixion. Chaucer refers to the disaster of the fall on Friday and the links continue and in the 17th century become particularly prominent.

The evidence of the superstition of number 13 is collected by a number of sources, not all trusted. For example, many suggest that Jacques de Molay, the head of the knight's Templar was arrested on Friday 13., but that is actually questionable. Some facts that can inspire Triskaidekaphobia that are true is that there are several serial killers whose first and surname contain 13 letters. Constantinople was released on Friday 13th, but that was actually happiness for ChristAny involved in the crusades and very unfortunate to the inhabitants of Constantinople.

Due to Triskaidekaphobia, or especially fear of Friday 13th, many people do not plan or travel on that day. The beginning of the journey, physically or metaphorically on that day is considered bad luck. Many of them will not fly the 13th, whether it is on Friday or not, and people feel that weddings, the beginning of holiday and the main purchases should not occur 13. The day in any month. Triskaidekaphobia has a strong possession of American thinking and economists estimate that on Friday 13 ..

Triskaidekaphobia has created an interesting stage of many hotels and skyscrapers. They have no 13. The floor and only skip from 12 to 14. From a rational point of view, of course there are 13. Similarly, in Asian countries, where people suffer from tetrafobia, hotels and skyscrapers, they skip on the fourth floor and re -described it as the fifth floor.