Some believe that every Friday, Frigga held a meeting with 11 other witches and the devil - a group of 13 - and plotted ill deeds for the upcoming week.īy some estimates, businesses lose millions of dollars on Friday the 13th because people are hesitant to make deals, travel, or shop as they would at other times.
Tradition also has it that God confounded languages at the tower of Babel on a Friday the 13th, and Solomon's Temple was destroyed on a Friday the 13th.įriday is named for Frigga, the goddess of love and fertility who was exiled in shame to a mountain and labeled a witch. It's a picture of a skeleton with a scythe, reaping down men. In Numerology, every number has a particular meaning. Both Friday and the number 13 were once closely associated with capital punishment.
On this day in 1306, King Philip of France arrested the revered Knights Templar and began torturing them, marking the occasion as a day of evil. In some places, it is also believed that it was Friday the 13th when Eve tempted Adam with the forbidden fruit.Īnother significant piece of the legend is a particularly bad Friday the 13th that occurred in the Middle Ages.
