Today is the last Friday the 13th of this year. There have been 3 this year (the most possible in a year, with one being the minimum) and if you are a freak then this is your last chance to get crazy on Firday the 13th. The next time there will be 3 Friday the 13ths in a year will be 2015!

The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskevidekatriaphobia, a word derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (meaning Friday), and dekatreís (meaning thirteen), attached to phobía (meaning fear). The term triskaidekaphobia derives from the Greek words “tris”, meaning ‘three’, “kai”, meaning ‘and’, and “deka”, meaning ‘ten’. the whole word means three and ten. The word was derived in 1911 and first appeared in a mainstream source in 1953.

According to folklorists, there is no written evidence for a “Friday the 13th” superstition before the 19th century but there have also been some that say it goes back to the 1300s. Or maybe it was related to Jesus Christ who was crucified on a Friday after a Last Supper Attended by 13 people. Others suggest it is related to Norse mythology when Loki crashed a party of 12 gods of Valhalla.

But who cares, right?

You might only care about what Friday the 13th has done for horror movies with one of the longest running series of movies with the Friday the 13th namesake. avnclub has a pretty cool breakdown of the many, many Friday the 13th movie breakdowns year-by-year for those that know how a special day should be celebrated!

If you ask me, TGIF!

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