Paraskevidekatriaphobia was a recent term created in the 1990s by therapist Dr. Just to be contrarian, some insist that the proper term for fear of Friday the 13th is Lawson, about a creepy stockbroker who engineers a panic on Wall Street on a Friday the 13th by playing on superstitious fears of the number 13. In fact, the phobia may have been popularized by the 1907 novel Friday, the Thirteenth by Thomas W. Truthfully, fears of the date Friday the 13th don't really appear anywhere in print much before 1907. It should be noted that there is actually a second Friday this year that falls on the 13th, and it is, as luck would have it, October 13th, which will mark the 710th anniversary of the Templars' arrests. The story of this genesis of the superstition was trotted out as factual in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Tellers of tall tales blame the fear on the Knights Templar, or maybe just on King Philip IV, because the Order was famously arrested all across France on Friday, October 13, 1307. For all of you friggatriskaidekaphobics out there, Happy Friday the 13th.
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