The Manlucky Day: Superstitions

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This day is known for its paddock day according to superstitions going on this day and age .This superstition has been around since he middle ages even to this day and age . This day and date there given names but they can be good days it will with you on dippending on how I spend the day. I don't have a problem about the day and date so it does not scared me when people talk about .

I am not sure about this superstition which started in the middle ages when people didn't know what to believe in then they found strange things to believe in and one way was to raise superstition on things . Most of this superstitions were Christen based .This 'unlucky day' is mentioned in this way 'there were 13 people sitting at the last supper table including
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Most people don't go to work on that road so there less accidents going around . when something happens to you on that day you will associate the two and never forget what happened to you.

The other reason of Friday the 13th is a bad day it's cause of the stock brocking which took part in The US on October 13 Friday when the US had a mini crash .Friday the 13th is no more unlucky than any other day. And yet the belief persists on a major scale. What’s going on there?

Friday’s are sometimes thought of as unlucky. Many people look forward to Friday, but not everyone. If nothing bad has happened all week, maybe it feels more “likely” to occur on Friday? Fridays may also feel more rushed and hectic if time sensitive tasks have to be completed before a
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It has its own phobia as well. But it’s only a number. There are loads of numbers, an uncountable amount , so why single a specific one out as unlucky when there are so many?

The number 13 isn't on a bad number it's a good number in Egypt a person has 13 life stages it is believed that 12 of those stages occurred in this life, but last, the 13th, was a joyous ,happy and worth living for to a afterlife. So the number 13 represented death to the Egyptians, but not death as in decay and fear, but as acknowledgement of a glorious eternal life. Of course, it’s always possible the association with death from Egyptian tradition later morphed into death in an unlucky sense later by cultures influenced by Egypt. But then Egypt is not the only country who thinks of 13 os a good number.
In many Spanish speaking countries, the badluck day Friday the 13th was renamed to Tuesday the 13th ("Martes 13") Tuesday 13 is believed to be a day of bad luck, not Friday 13. Many people also believe Friday 13 is a lucky day for children to be born.

Think Friday is a good day cause that is the day when Jesus died for our sins and the day we were clean from sins . The weekend starts on Friday and you look forward to as we will be able to take a break from all the work we've done during the

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