How Did the Fear of the Number 13 Originate?
There is a legend that the ancient Code of Hammurabi (from around 1760 B.C.) skipped over the law No.13 and this shows that they avoided number 13. This is not true, as the codes are not numbered. Some people believe that this superstition about the number 13 came from the observation that Judas Iscariot, who was supposed to have betrayed Jesus Christ at the Last Supper, was the 13th person to sit at the table. Could another theory be more plausible? The early Church was keen to suppress all pagan religions in its territory. What they couldn’t suppress, they changed into acceptable Christian form. The Roman Saturnalia became Christmas. Friday comes from the Old Norse Freyjudagr, named after Venus, the goddess of love and sex. The male dominated Catholic Church couldn’t have a day for love and sex ad had to vilify Friday. Pre-Christian Germanic and Celtic cultures considered 13 a very lucky number. To distance them from the pagans, the Christians made the association that 13, is the evi
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