If you have nothing better to do, you can waste several hours poking about on the Internet to find out why Friday the 13th is considered unlucky. According to biblical tradition, there were 13 guests at the Last Supper, which makes 13 an unlucky number, and Jesus got nailed to a tree for being a hippie on a Friday, which wasn’t exactly fortunate, thus bringing Fridays into the equation. Not that he wasn’t a hippie every day, of course, it’s just that Fridays are when crucifixions took place. However, according to Donald Dossey, the founder of the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina, it can be traced back to a Norse myth about 12 gods who were having a party in Valhalla that was crashed by Loki, the uninvited 13th guest, who then tric...
