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May The Curse Be With You

By Rick Paulas

Friday, February 13, 2009

A word you'll be hearing a lot today is "paraskavedekatriaphobia", the fear of the day Friday the 13th. The origin of this fear is disputed. Some say it's simply a mixture of the number 13—long a cursed number and the reason most hotel elevators go from the 12th to the 14th floor—and Friday, which someone decided was cursed long ago because it was "The 6th Day". (People who saw the movie of the same name featuring the current California governor certainly felt so.) Others believe ...

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