Other more recent notable Friday the 13th deaths include the rapper Tupac Shakur on Sept. He was surrounded to the last by admiring friends and if it be true that, like so many Italians, he regarded Fridays as an unlucky day and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that one Friday 13th of November he died. Rossini’s biography, by Henry Sutherland Edwards, includes the following tidbit:
Famous deaths on Friday the 13th don’t help This “Fridays are unlucky” theory comes with at least some evidence in the form of a biography of the composer Giachino Rossini, which leads us to the next Friday the 13th fact. Shuffle those letters around, and you get VIXI, which translates from Latin to English as “I have lived” - or put another way, I am dead.) It stems from the Roman numerals for 17, XVII. (Technically, Italians consider Friday the 17th unlucky. The crucifixion of Jesus Christ on the Friday after the Last Supper gave rise to the belief, particularly among Italians, especially in times of old, that Fridays are unlucky. Good Friday, the day of crucifixion, led some to believe Fridays are unlucky In Norse mythology, the trickster god Loki crashed a 12-god dinner party in Valhalla, then arranged for one of the gods to shoot another with an arrow dipped in mistletoe. Harry Potter fans may remember Professor Sybill Trelawney’s concern over 13 guests at the Christmas dinner at Hogwarts - the superstition referenced in the fictional work seems to come from the Last Supper.Īnother infamous meal with 13 diners could also have fueled this aspect of the superstition. The Last Supper’s 13 dinersĪnother theory? 13 people dined at the Last Supper, Jesus’s last meal before his crucifixion.
Next, the Code of Hammurabi, one of the very first legal codes in history, written some 1,700 or so years before the birth of Jesus Christ, seems to lack a 13th rule.
No 13th rule in one of the earliest written legal codes
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