Why Is the Number 13 Considered Unlucky?
I have received a lot of enquiries regarding number 13.It is considered an unlucky number by a vast majority of people.It is seen that the Honourable kerala High court has not a bench numbering 13. I am reproducing below an article written by me in the ASIAN TRIBUNE dated December 26,2006:- NUMBER 13 IS NOT UNLUCKY Tue, 2006-12-26 02:16 M.K. Damodaran – Numerologist, Kerala, India. There is a world wide superstition that No13 is an unlucky number. In fact No13 has scared the lives out of many. But actually, No13 is a very powerful number. The belief that No 13 is unlucky has no numerological basis.My first experiment with No13 was the study of the political fortunes of India’s s former Prime Minister, A.B Vajpayee, who was in the Prime Minister’s office for 3 times. This numerologist has been passionately involved with numerology for the last 18 years and found that there is no reason to isolate No13 as an unfortunate number. Certain numbers are fortunate to certain people .Similarly c
Many people believe that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day, that the 13th floor of a building is unlucky, or that the number 13 in general is unlucky. No one seems to know exactly why this came to be so, but there are many possible explanations. One is that the superstition goes back to the Last Supper. There were 13 people at t
There are various theories. One comes from Scandinavian mythology, which says that at a banquet held in Valhalla (the home of Odin, the god of war) 12 gods were invited, but Loki, the spirit of strife and evil, gate-crashed into the party making the number 13—due to which Balder, a favourite of the gods, was killed by his twin brother Holder. Another refers to Christ’s last supper, where 12 apostles plus Jesus added up to the number 13. The supper was considered an omen of misfortune and death. Another (more rational) explanation notes that statistical surveys conducted by insurance companies show that in any group of 13, one person dies within a year.
The explanation I’ve read was from the DaVinci code, the book, and I’m not sure if it’s real. But it says, On a Friday on October 13, I don’t know which year, but it was when the Crusades took place, the Roman Catholic church people killed many people that day. The blood ran through all the waters and the bodies took the soil. Because they killed so many people that day, people from then on considered Friday the 13th unlucky, and throughout the years, it developed into the number 13 that was unlucky.
