What is it about the number thirteen? Why are people so afraid of this number? I am not talking about some doomsday cranks here, I am talking about rational educated people.

But few of these rational educated people want to live in a house numbered thirteen? In fact many large hotels and apartment blocks will not even have a thirteenth floor. The reality is of course they do have a floor that is the thirteenth but it where the room numbering is concerned each room will start with the number fourteen.

Simply because no one wants to live or stay in a room that's number starts with a thirteen!

It always amazes me how normally sane, intelligent people, succumb to these superstitious beliefs!

Add a Friday to number thirteen and things become even stranger. People will book the day off work so they can stay at home to try and avoid having an accident. Even stranger when you consider that most accidents happen in the home.

If you ring up an airline company wanting to travel on Friday 13th you could probably choose whatever seat you want, because the plane will be virtually empty. No one wants to fly on Friday 13th, it's too risky.

But why do people, in these modern times, still allow such superstitious beliefs to affect their lives.

These beliefs, like rumours, grow with the passage of time. The majority of superstitious beliefs date back hundreds of years to a time when people lived a much simpler life. They did not have the advantage of books and knowledge at their fingertips as we do today.

So when one day they look up at the sky and see the moon eclipse the sun, and the day is plunged into darkness, it is reasonable for them to assume that their crops will fail and that a year of bad luck will descend onto them.

But superstitious beliefs, or just plain beliefs, don't have to contain any truth to them. They are simply thoughts that we constantly think that go onto form a belief.

Let's look at Friday 13th again! Why is that date surrounded by such a superstitious belief of bad luck?

The fact is, there are many reasons why such beliefs are associated with this date. Reasons like; on Friday 13th, in 1306, King Philip of France arrested the Knights Templar and began torturing them, marking the occasion as a day of evil.

In Britain, Friday was the traditional day for public hangings. There where supposedly thirteen steps leading up to the noose.

Add these facts together, plus a couple of hundred years, and over time the facts begin to morph into the superstition. Beware Friday 13th!

We live in much more intelligent awareness times now but still people let their superstitious beliefs get the better of them. But the point is, if you belief something bad is going to happen to you on Friday 13th, and you belief it strongly enough, by the Law of Attraction it will.

Keep a look out for the beliefs you hold, they could be doing you more harm than you realise.

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