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Friday the 13th

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Friday the 13th

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unlucky day in popular superstition

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Friday the 13th is a day considered unlucky in popular superstition, combining two separately feared elements: Friday and the number 13. The superstition persists in modern culture despite lacking factual basis, influencing how some people approach the day.

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Encyclopedic overview

Friday the 13th marked on a calendar Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition. It occurs when the 13th day of the month in the Gregorian calendar falls on a Friday, which happens at least once every year but can occur up to three times in the same year. For a month to have a Friday the 13th, the first day of the month must be a Sunday.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Friday the 13th” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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