13 has a dynamic. Usually negative, for superstitious and Olympic (ed. port 13). Tuesday the 13th is considered by Greeks to be a bad luck day, without knowing exactly where the discrediting of this day comes from.
First of all, let's make it clear that Tuesday the 13th is one thing, and Friday the 13th is another. Greek popular anger has nothing to do with this Americanized scary day. In fact, in order to avoid populism, Friday the 13th is a date with a negative background in the West in general since the beginning of the 19th century. But let's focus on today.
Inappropriate day
Our own "jinx" considers, along with Hispanics, today to be an inappropriate day for many things. Inappropriate to start something new, inappropriate to travel, and for the extremely superstitious, inappropriate even to leave your house. It all started on a really bad day. Somewhere there on the shores of the Bosphorus, where Europe ends, and the West meets the mysterious East, through death... one of the greatest superstitions of our people was born.
Tuesday, May 29, 1453, is the day of the beginning of a period of darkness for Hellenism that lasted nearly four centuries. Constantinople is conquered by the Ottomans, and the Greeks are now on a course of slavery. But along with the tragedy of this event, Fortune has combined many things together to give birth to this bad reputation for this day. The Fall of the City became Tuesday. If you add 1453, it adds up to... 13! Yes, and here's Tuesday and 13!
But before we get to 13, let's look at the day Tuesday. And that has a negative connotation, and that's because when we want to say that a series of evils ends, we end it at three events. We call the evil a "tritosis", that is, it cannot go any further...
The Greek people, having from the depths of antiquity a special love for superstitions and superstitions, had generally built a whole polemic around 13, which with the Fall of Constantinople, everything... "came and bound", as they say.
So, 13 has the misfortune to follow 12. What does 12 have to do with it? Twelve the gods of Olympus, twelve the exploits of Hercules, twelve the months, two twelve-hour days, twelve the disciples of Christ, twelve the Gospels read on Maundy Thursday. As we understand, 12 has a sense of completion, perfection. So 13, as the first number of the next 12, is essentially the one that breaks up the existing harmony.
Many numbers. But even a superstition is not easy to analyze...
Good luck!
Source: EleftherosTypos
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