Paraskavedekatriaphobia

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Paraskavedekatriaphobia

It’s Friday the 13th, the one day of the year where Paraskavedekatriaphobia can cause people all kinds of problems and stress.
I saw the original Friday The 13th movie at the Drive In Theater in 1980. I wonder how much influence these movies have had on the naming and diagnosing of Paraskavedekatriaphobia? And why is there a term for this, but, not the fear of Halloween.
I will say the original Halloween movie made more of an impression on me, but, that could be because I was 17 and Jamie Lee Curtis was the main character, Laurie Strode. Now if that character [...]

Friday the 13th: British Study Confirms It IS Bad Luck

Is Friday the 13th Bad for Your Health? by Aly Adair Myths, legends, and folklore…where would Harry Potter be without them? I wonder if Harry suffers from paraskavedekatriaphobia. What is that?!? According to Dr. Donald Dossey, a psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of phobias, and coiner of the term “paraskevidekatriaphobia”, it describes people afflicted with a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th - and according to Dossey, there are about 21 million of us in America who h

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People suffering from paraskavedekatriaphobia, the fear of Friday the 13th, can now relax for a while. They won't have to deal with another Friday the 13th until next February

Top Ten Weird Phobias

10. Coulrophobia: the fear of clowns 9. Meteorophobia: the fear of meteors 8. Paraskavedekatriaphobia: the fear of Friday the thirteenth 7. Xanthophobia: the fear of the colour yellow 6. Genuphobia: the fear of knees 5. Kathisophobia: the fear of sitting down 4. Pentheraphobia: the fear of your mother-in-law 3. Philematophobia: the fear of kissing 2. Panphobia: the fear of everything or a vague, persistent dread of some unknown evil 1. Arachibutyrophobia: fear of peanut butter sticking

friday the thirteenth

friday the 13th is considered a day of bad luck for most of us. thirteen (13) is said to be unlucky or irregular since it will always give you a remainder of 1 when your divide it by 2, 3 , 4 or 6. friday, on the other hand is considered a doomed day because for a fact, as per the bible, Jesus died on a friday. the fear for this day is called paraskavedekatriaphobia derived from the greek word paraskevi (friday) and dekatreis (thirteen). although there are a number of significant accidents, i s

Article about: GirlFriday: Friday the 13th!

GirlFriday: Friday the 13th! » by Sabrina in: Bizarre, Entertainment, Feedback Requested, Just Fun, Readers, Videos, What do you think? Lucky/Unlucky? What do you think? Here’s some cool videos that I found that I thought all you horror buffs would dig… Diggin’ the legos, for real. Don’t you love these? Anyways, here’s a reference for Friday the 13th and all the superstition surrounding it. I don’t have Paraskavedekatriaphobia, so I personally couldn’t care less one way or the other,