{"id":231,"date":"2010-08-13T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/08\/fun-friday-the-13th-a-break-from-serious-fears.html"},"modified":"2010-08-13T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T13:00:00","slug":"fun-friday-the-13th-a-break-from-serious-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/08\/fun-friday-the-13th-a-break-from-serious-fears.html","title":{"rendered":"Fun Friday the 13th: A Break from Serious Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the&nbsp;panic lately about <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/08\/religious-reaction-roundup-to-overturn-of-prop-8-gay-marriage-ban.html\">gay marriages resuming in California&nbsp;<\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/08\/debate-on-911-ground-zero-mosque-bus-ads.html\">mosques proposed near Ground Zero and elsewhere<\/a>, plus Muslims scared that this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-08-14-eid13_ST_N.htm\">timing of the end of Ramadan will be interpreted as some kind of Sept. 11 celebration<\/a>, it&#8217;s refreshing today to turn to a simpler kind of fear: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/ourladyofweightloss\/2010\/08\/friday-the-13th---do-you-suffe.html\">Paraskevidekatriaphobia<\/a>, or for those of you who don&#8217;t speak Greek, fear of Friday the 13th.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t share this superstition,&nbsp;given that I love Fridays and both my parents are born on the 13th &#8212; doesn&#8217;t get much luckier than that! But, the phobia does<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2010\/08\/100813-friday-the-13th-superstitions-triskaidekaphobia\/\"> some religious roots<\/a>&nbsp;(mainly Christian), so I thought I&#8217;d share some relevant links here today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Faiths\/Islam\/2005\/05\/My-Holy-Friday-The-13Th.aspx\">My Holy Friday the 13th <\/a>(Beliefnet)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2010\/08\/100813-friday-the-13th-superstitions-triskaidekaphobia\/\">Friday the 13th Superstitions Rooted in Bible and More <\/a>(National Geographic)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/billtammeus.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/2010\/08\/81310.html\">Faith-based Superstitions: 8-13-10 <\/a>(Bill&#8217;s &#8216;Faith Matters&#8217; Weblog)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alamosanews.com\/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&amp;story_id=17670&amp;page=79\">Friday the 13th, and the superstition in sports <\/a>(Valley Courier)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.witneygazette.co.uk\/news\/8329572.Friday_the_13th__It_s_my_lucky_day__says_bride\/\">Friday the 13th? It&#8217;s my lucky day, says bride <\/a>(Witney Gazette)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think? Feeling unlucky? Share your thoughts, and any&nbsp;other interesting links you find,&nbsp;in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the&nbsp;panic lately about gay marriages resuming in California&nbsp;and mosques proposed near Ground Zero and elsewhere, plus Muslims scared that this year&#8217;s timing of the end of Ramadan will be interpreted as some kind of Sept. 11 celebration, it&#8217;s refreshing today to turn to a simpler kind of fear: Paraskevidekatriaphobia, or for those of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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