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Thank God It's Friday The 13th!

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Friday the 13th is a date considered to be bad luck in western superstition. According to folklorists, there is no written evidence for a "Friday the 13th" superstition before the 19th century.

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Friday the 13th Superstition Party

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good luck.

ohh no it's a broken mirror... don't look in it!

Oh no!

Cartoons on sticky notes by Doug Savage

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13 Ways to Improve Your Luck this Friday the 13th (click through to article)

Bake a Lucky Spinach Quiche on this coming Friday 13th! (follow link for recipe)

Friday the 13th is not just the name of one good movie and 47 terrible ones, for the superstitious amongst us.. it is filled with perils.

Broken mirror.. not good.

I would never watch this movie.

Black cats in the middle ages were believed to be witches' familiars, and some people even believed them to be witches incarnate.

blow..

Make a wish on a wishbone. Legend has it that first-century Romans used to fight over dried wishbones — which they believed were good luck — and would accidentally break them, ushering in the idea that whoever has the largest bit of bone gets their wish.

Celtic good luck knot.

These cute black cats say, 'Happy Friday the 13th!'

Many beliefs involve blowing on the dandelion seed head to tell us something we want to know.

Known gnomes are considered good luck.

Notice no 13th floor in this building!

This phrase is almost like a verbal talisman, designed to ward off bad luck after tempting fate: "Breaking that mirror didn't bring me any trouble, knock on wood."

You wish it were only a nightmare...

Throw salt over your shoulder for good luck and protection.

Three sixes in a row give some people the chills. It's a superstition that harks back to the Bible. In the Book of Revelation, 666 is given as the number of the "beast," and is often interpreted as the mark of Satan and a sign of the end times.

White Sage Smudge Wand . For Cleansing and Clearing the Home of Negativity, Spiritual Cleansing, Banishing, Protection

Careful with that mirror! Breaking a mirror is a surefire way to doom yourself to seven years of bad luck.

Wiccapedia, Modern-Day White Witch`s Guide by Robbins & Greenawa

Friday the 13th: A day best spent indoors, in a padded room. Considered to be one of the most unluckiest of days.

Bad luck comes in threes

The Tarot: the Death card is as much about transformation as about loss. The Death card indicates this transition from lower to higher to highest. As something is taken from us, something new is created.

The Tarot: Whether reversed or upright, the Tower is a card about change. In "Finances": As with the Tower in the upright position, this is not a time for risky investments, gambling, or expecting a lottery win.

A rabbit's foot will bring you luck. Talismans and amulets are a time-honored way of fending off evil.

Friday the 13th, the American horror franchise.

Don't Walk under a ladder! Though I find tis superstition o be pretty practical. This superstition arised from a Christian belief in the Holy Trinity: Since a ladder leaning against a wall forms a triangle, "breaking" that triangle was blasphemous.

The earliest known documented reference of Friday the 13th in English occurs in Henry Sutherland Edwards' 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini, who died on a Friday 13th.

Find a penny, pick it up and all day long, you'll have good luck.

on a positive note, a stream of beginner's luck might arise

keep a black cat out of your path

Superstitous much???