THE MYTH OF FRIDAY THE 13th | Episode 33

Better Humanhood

English - September 12, 2019 09:30 - 8 minutes - 9.35 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
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Mention Friday the 13th to any Freemason, and you're going to hear about Jacques De Molay and the Knights Templar. But is that really the origin of the myth?

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Links:
• Wikipedia: Knights Templar

• Paraskevidekatriaphobia

• Vox: Friday the 13th is a meme disguised as superstition

• Hesiod's rules

• Wikipedia: The Last Supper

• The 13th Guest

• The Canterbury Tales

• A Match at Midnight

• Snopes.com: Fact-checking Friday the 13th

• Friday, the Thirteenth by Thomas Lawson

• NYT: Sen. Robert Owen proposes 13 doomed bills on Friday the 13th

• IMDB: 'Friday the 13th'

• 13 things for Friday the 13th

• JoshShear.com: Origin myth of Friday the 13th as an unlucky day