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Why Do We Care that it’s Friday the 13th?

by Kate Dolan | Feb 13, 2015 | Articles, Faith, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History, Religion and Magic

Many superstitions date back to the medieval days when people believed that you could tell if your neighbor was a witch based her buoyancy in the local pond. But the “bad luck on Friday the 13th” thing doesn’t show up in lore until fairly recently....

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