"strengthen the superstition about Tuesday. In addition, in Greek the name of the day is Triti (""Τρίτη"") meaning the third (day of the week), adding weight to the superstition, since bad luck is said to ""come in threes"". Tuesday the 13th occurs in a month that begins on a Thursday. In Italian popular culture, Friday the 17th (and not the 13th) is considered a day of bad luck. The origin of this belief could be traced in the writing of number 17, in Roman numerals: XVII. By shuffling the digits of the number one can easily get the word VIXI"
"Friday the 13th 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 example in 2015, on 13 Feb, 13 March and 13 October. In 2017, it occurred twice, on 13 January and 13 October. In 2018, it also occurred twice, on 13 April and 13 July. There will be two Friday the 13ths every year until 2020; 2021 and 2022 will have just"
"awareness about automotive safety, this is possible because there is at least one F13 each year. The table is for the Gregorian calendar and Jan/Feb for leap years. Friday the 13th 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 example in 2015, on 13 Feb, 13 March and 13 October. In 2017, it occurred twice, on 13 January and 13 October. In"
"only Polish retained nasal vowels. Friday is considered unlucky in some cultures. This is particularly so in maritime circles; perhaps the most enduring sailing superstition is that it is unlucky to begin a voyage on a Friday. In the 19th century, Admiral William Henry Smyth described Friday in his nautical lexicon ""The Sailor's Word-Book"" as: ("" means ""unlucky day"".) This superstition is the root of the well-known urban legend of . In modern times, Friday the 13th is considered to be especially unlucky, due to the conjunction of Friday with the unlucky number thirteen. Such a Friday may be called"
"(""I have lived"", implying death in the present), an omen of bad luck. In fact, in Italy, 13 is generally considered a lucky number. However, due to Americanization, young people consider Friday the 13th unlucky as well. The 2000 parody film ""Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth"" was released in Italy with the title ""Shriek – Hai impegni per venerdì 17?"" (""""Shriek – Do You Have Something to Do on Friday the 17th?""""). Friday the 17th occurs on a month starting on Wednesday. According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North"
"The Coligny calendar also identifies certain calendar dates as lucky or unlucky, and the Roman ""fasti"" marks many days and parts of others as ""dies nefasti"", unsuited for the conduct of public business. Contemporary North America preserves a tradition that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day. It has been called a ""pervasive form of divination"" that ""is found in all societies which regulate their days and nights in calendric systems."" The received idea concerning the origin of Tycho Brahe days was that ""Tycho Brahe, the celebrated Danish astronomer of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was very superstitious, considering certain"
"13 is lucky in Italy except in some contexts, such as sitting at the dinner table. In Cantonese-speaking areas, including Hong Kong and Macau, the number 13 is considered lucky because it sounds similar to the Cantonese words meaning ""sure to live"" (as opposed to the unlucky number 14 which in Cantonese sounds like the words meaning ""sure to die""). Colgate University was started by 13 men with $13 and 13 prayers, so 13 is considered a lucky number. Friday the 13th is the luckiest day at Colgate. A number of sportspeople are known for wearing the number 13 jersey"
"the number 13 has a specifically recognized phobia, Triskaidekaphobia, a word coined in 1911. The superstitious sufferers of triskaidekaphobia try to avoid bad luck by keeping away from anything numbered or labelled thirteen. As a result, companies and manufacturers use another way of numbering or labelling to avoid the number, with hotels and tall buildings being conspicuous examples (thirteenth floor). It is also considered unlucky to have thirteen guests at a table. Friday the 13th has been considered an unlucky day. There are a number of theories as to why the number thirteen became associated with bad luck, but none"
"one occurrence each. A Friday the 13th occurs during any month that begins on a Sunday. The fear of the number 13 has been given a scientific name: ""triskaidekaphobia""; and on analogy to this the fear of Friday the 13th is called ""paraskevidekatriaphobia"", from the Greek words ""Paraskeví"" (Παρασκευή, meaning ""Friday""), and ""dekatreís"" (δεκατρείς, meaning ""thirteen""). The superstition surrounding this day may have arisen in the Middle Ages, ""originating from the story of Jesus' last supper and crucifixion"" in which there were 13 individuals present in the Upper Room on the 13th of Nisan Maundy Thursday, the night before his"
"the 13th""; however, the authors clearly state that ""the numbers of admissions from accidents are too small to allow meaningful analysis"". Subsequent studies have disproved any correlation between Friday the 13th and the rate of accidents. On the contrary, the Dutch Centre for Insurance Statistics on 12 June 2008 stated that ""fewer accidents and reports of fire and theft occur when the 13th of the month falls on a Friday than on other Fridays, because people are preventatively more careful or just stay home. Statistically speaking, driving is slightly safer on Friday the 13th, at least in the Netherlands; in"
"death on Good Friday. While there is evidence of both Friday and the number 13 being considered unlucky, there is no record of the two items being referred to as especially unlucky in conjunction before the 19th century. An early documented reference in English occurs in Henry Sutherland Edwards' 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini, who died on a Friday 13th: He [Rossini] was surrounded to the last by admiring friends; and if it be true that, like so many Italians, he regarded Fridays as an unlucky day and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that on Friday 13th"
"the last two years, Dutch insurers received reports of an average 7,800 traffic accidents each Friday; but the average figure when the 13th fell on a Friday was just 7,500."" In years which begin on the same day of the week and are of the same type (that is, whether they are a common year or leap year), Friday the 13th occurs in the same months. This sequence, given here for 1900–2099, follows a 28-year cycle from 1 March 1900 to 28 February 2100. The months with a Friday the 13th are determined by the Dominical letter (G, F, GF,"
"highlighted Catholic dates, as ' (""Ash Wednesday"") or ' (""Resurrection Sunday""), which are always capitalized. In Spanish, abbreviations for the month part are usually three letters long, to avoid confusion between ' (March) and ' (May), and between ' (June) and ' (July). The week runs from Monday to Sunday. In Spanish, there exists a convention for single-letter day names: ' means ' (Monday), ' means ' (Tuesday), ' means ' (Wednesday), ' means ' (Thursday), ' means ' (Friday), ' means ' (Saturday) and means """" (Sunday). Basically, the initial letter of the weekday name, except for Wednesday which"
"official rule) outdated and no longer valid, but many writers still follow it. In Shia Islam, 13 signifies the 13th day of the month of Rajab (the Lunar calendar), which is the birth of Imam Ali. 13 also is a total of 1 Prophet and 12 Imams in the Islamic School of Thought. However, in Sunni Islam, the number 13 bears no symbolic significance. The apparitions of the Virgin of Fátima in 1917 were claimed to occur on the 13th day of six consecutive months. In Catholic devotional practice, the number thirteen is also associated with Saint Anthony of Padua,"
"time of the year) and have Jesus bringing the end of it, thus making the ""summer"" a gift from God. In Spain, St. Martin's Day is the traditional day for slaughtering fattened pigs for the winter. This tradition has given way to the popular saying """"A cada cerdo le llega su San Martín"""", which translates as ""Every pig gets its St Martin."" The phrase is used to indicate that wrongdoers eventually get their comeuppance. In Saint Martin, November 11 is commemorated as the date when Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus, on his second journey into Antillean waters, landed on the island,"
"of God,"" ""share of the Virgin Mary,"" or ""share of the poor"" was intended for the first poor person to arrive at the home. The ""roscón de reyes"" in Spain or ""rosca de reyes"" in Latin America is traditionally eaten on January 6, during the celebration of the ""Día de los reyes magos"" (Epiphany or the ""Day of the Three Wisemen""). In most of Spain, Mexico and in Latino communities in the United States, this is the day when children get presents from the Three Wise Men. Before going to bed, children in Mexico leave a shoe outside their home,"
"the post-classic Aztec calendar the 20 days called veintenas in Spanish and meztli, meaning moon in Nahuatl, were also important. The five unlucky days were called nemontemi in Mexico. Most believe them to have come at the end of each year, but since we do not know when the year started, we cannot know for sure. We do know though, that in the Maya-area these five days (called Wayeb in Maya) were always the very last days of the year. The nemontemi were seen as 'the useless days' or the days that were dedicated to no gods, and they had"
"who committed petty thefts. The origins of this patronage are not known. Cucuphas Saint Cucuphas (also ""Cucufas"" or ""Qaqophas"", , , , , , ) is a martyr of Spain. His feast day is 25 July but in some areas it is celebrated on 27 July to avoid conflict with the important feast day of Santiago, the patron saint of Spain. His name is said to be of Phoenician origin with the meaning of ""he who jokes, he who likes to joke."" Cucuphas was born into a noble Christian family in Scillis (Africa Proconsularis). He and Saint Felix, later martyred"
"the Sun and in particular zenithal passages), were found at this and other sites. The sacred almanac may well have been set in motion on August 13, 1359 BCE, in Izapa. In the post-classic Aztec calendar the periods of 13 days called in Spanish a ""trecena"" (no indigenous word for this period is known) were also important. The days of a trecena were usually numbered from 1 to 13. There were some exceptions, such as in the Tlapanec area where they were counted from 2 to 14. The first day of the trecena, and the god who was its patron,"
"them almonds, dried figs, nuts, cookies or other good things that they have at home. In Spain and some Latin American countries, Epiphany day is called ""El Día de los Reyes"" i.e., the day when a group of Kings or Magi, as related in the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, arrived to worship and bring three gifts to the baby Jesus after following a star in the heavens. This day is sometimes known as the ""Día de los Tres Reyes Magos"" (The day of the Three Royal Magi) or ""La Pascua de los Negros"" (Holy Day of the"
"are on the 13th. The 13th day of the month is slightly more likely to be a Friday than any other day of the week. On average, there is a Friday the 13th once every 212.35 days, whereas Thursday the 13th occurs only once every 213.59 days. In the 2010s there were three Friday the 13ths in 2012 and 2015, and two in 2013, 2017 and 2018. There will also be two in 2019 and 2020. In the 2020s, there will be three F13's in 2026, and two in 2020, 2023, 2024, and 2029. The rest of years have at"
"Spanish saints as the Christmas Pageant, a new kind of religious ceremony to accompany the Christmas holiday. In Mexico, the winter solstice festival was one of the most important celebrations of the year and it was on December 12 according to the Julian calendar used by the Spaniards until 1582. According to the Aztec calendar, Tonantzin Guadalupe (the beloved mother of the gods) was celebrated on the winter solstice, and she is still celebrated today on December 12; while their most important deity, the sun god ""Huitzilopochtli,"" was born during the month of December (""panquetzaliztli)"". The parallel in time between"
"within Iran and abroad. Since Sizdah Be-dar is the 13th day of the year, it is considered a day when evil's power might cause difficulties for people. Therefore, people leave urban areas for one day and camp in the countryside. Even in the current post-1979 Revolution era, and despite the wishes of Islamic government, this tradition continues to be practiced by the majority of the population throughout Iran. The number 13 is considered an unlucky number in some countries. The end of the Mayan calendar's 13th Baktun was superstitiously feared as a harbinger of the apocalyptic 2012 phenomenon. Fear of"
"the day of the week on which the feast of ""Innocents Day"" had fallen for the whole of the following year until the next Innocents Day. Philippe de Commynes, the minister of King Louis XI of France tells in his memoirs how the king observed this custom, and describes the trepidation he felt when he had to inform the king of an emergency on the day. In Spain, Hispanic America, and the Philippines, December 28 is still a day for pranks, equivalent to April Fool's Day in many countries. Pranks (""bromas"") are also known as ""inocentadas"" and their victims are"
"play, with elders cautioning that since “God is dead”, evil spirits are freely roaming the earth to harm humans. The ritual mourning and generally sombre mood of the day gave rise to the Tagalog idiom “""Mukhâ kang Biyernes Santo""” (“You’ve a face like Good Friday.”) The phrase refers to a sad person's demeanor resembling that of the suffering Christ. Black Saturday or Holy Saturday (Sábado de Gloria) is the third and final public holiday of the week. The day is legally and colloquially termed in English as “Black” given the colour's role in mourning. The term ""Sábado de Gloria"" (Spanish"
"give your Church the grace to imitate devoutly the Blessed Virgin Mary in contemplating the Passion of Christ, grant, we pray, through her intercession, that we may cling more firmly each day to your Only Begotten Son and come at last to the fullness of his grace. </poem> In many Latin American countries, such as Mexico, Brazil, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Peru, as well as in Spain and the Philippines, this Friday feast of Our Lady of Sorrows is called ""Viernes de Dolores"" (Friday of Sorrows). It is sometimes also referred to as ""Council Friday"", because of the choice of John"
"holiday is called ""Klämdag"" (Squeeze Day) and a lot of Swedes try to take a vacation day to have a long weekend. In the United Kingdom and some other British Commonwealth countries, and in Ireland, the term is often known as a Bank Holiday weekend, since bank holidays always fall on a Monday. The term for a four-day weekend in some Spanish-speaking countries is ""puente"" (""bridge"") or simply ""fin de semana largo"". In Spain, the bridge becomes a ""puente"" in some years when the anniversary of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 (December 6) and the Blessed Virgin Mary's Immaculate Conception"
"the letters ""eme"" (Spanish for M), or the number 13 either in Arabic, Roman, or Aztec numerals (M is the 13th letter of the alphabet). The number 13 may also be represented in any number of graphical depictions combining one of something and three of something. For example, one dot under the left hand and three dots under the right hand. A number of additional symbols stem from the group's cultural and ethnic heritage. Symbols such as the eagle or the serpent may be allusions to the Mexican flag. Additionally, as the group places emphasis on their pre-Spanish Aztec cultural"
"Public holidays in Spain Public holidays celebrated in Spain include a mix of religious (Roman Catholic), national and regional observances. Each municipality is allowed to have a maximum of 13 public holidays per year; a maximum of nine of these are chosen by the national government and at least two are chosen locally. If one of the ""national holidays"" happens to fall on a Sunday the regional governments — the autonomous communities of Spain — can choose an alternate holiday or they can allow local authorities to choose. In practice, except for holidays falling on a Sunday, the regional governments"
"Cross, Christ's prayer, and his new commandment. The twelve readings are: Beginning on Holy and Great Thursday, the memorial service for the dead is forbidden until after Thomas Sunday. Maundy Thursday is a public holiday in most countries that were part of the Spanish empire (Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela), countries that were part of the Danish colonial empire (Denmark, Iceland, Norway and United States Virgin Islands), and in the Kerala State of India. Certain German states declare a public holiday for public sector employees. In the"
"Cucuphas Saint Cucuphas (also ""Cucufas"" or ""Qaqophas"", , , , , , ) is a martyr of Spain. His feast day is 25 July but in some areas it is celebrated on 27 July to avoid conflict with the important feast day of Santiago, the patron saint of Spain. His name is said to be of Phoenician origin with the meaning of ""he who jokes, he who likes to joke."" Cucuphas was born into a noble Christian family in Scillis (Africa Proconsularis). He and Saint Felix, later martyred at Girona, were said to have been deacons of the Christian Church"
"list. One should also note that Denmark was on the Julian calendar until 1700, when it switched to the Gregorian calendar. Medieval calendars often contained lists of ""dies Ægyptiaci"", ""Egyptian days"", that also were held to be unlucky. The Egyptian days were: These too were days considered unlucky to begin any enterprise. Physicians were especially discouraged from performing bloodletting on the Egyptian days. Tycho Brahe days In the folklore of Scandinavia, Tycho Brahe days (Danish: ""Tycho Brahes-dage""; Norwegian: ""Tycho Brahedager""; Swedish: ""Tycho Brahe-dagar"") are days judged to be especially unlucky, especially for magical work, and important business transactions[ and personal"
"Fiesta Nacional de España The Fiesta Nacional de España (""Festa Nacional d'Espanya"" in Catalan/Valencian/Balearic; ""Festa Nacional de España"" in Galician; ""Espainiako Jai Nazionala"" in Basque) is the national day of Spain. It is held annually on October 12 and is a national holiday. It commemorates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's first arrival in the Americas, a day also celebrated in other countries. The anniversary of Columbus' landing in the New World on October 12, 1492, is widely celebrated throughout the Americas. It is known as Columbus Day in the United States and as ""Día de la Raza"" in various Latin"