Messages In This Digest (14 Messages)
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- WIC-CAN FEST 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION From: greymoonlake
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- Fw: DailyOM: Conscious Evolution From: Beth Patterson
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- Fw: Daily Ray of Hope From: Beth Patterson
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- Please place in your prayer bowls From: Angelsvoice Eissey
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- Re: Please place in your prayer bowls From: Lady Nightshayde
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- Re: Please place in your prayer bowls From: LadyFromDover@aol.com
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- Re: Please place in your prayer bowls From: Beth Patterson
- 5a.
- Daily Feng Shui Tip From: Lady Nightshayde
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- Paraskevidekatriaphobia: Fear of Friday the 13th From: Lady Nightshayde
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- What are you Doing on Friday the 13th? From: Lady Nightshayde
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- Facts About Friday the 13th From: Lady Nightshayde
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- Freaky Friday From: Lady Nightshayde
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- Number 13 Lore From: Lady Nightshayde
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- Fun Friday--Tough Exam From: Lady Nightshayde
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WIC-CAN FEST 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Posted by: "greymoonlake" greymoonlake@yahoo.ca greymoonlake
Thu May 12, 2011 8:37 am (PDT)
Wic Can Fest is a large gathering held each year near the Summer Solstice in Ontario, Canada at a campground with some shared indoor accommodations. Facilities include showers, flush toilets, swimming pool, small shared cabins, a large space for camp set-up, nature, hills, forest and a river, a full kitchen where meals are available for purchase and co-operative childcare. This event has been in existence since 1982.
We hope you'...ll join us to celebrate 30 years of Magical Festivities as our theme this year will be :"Coming Home".
Come learn about different paths and traditions and discover how they flow from a similar past, experience new skills, listen to magical music and witness the dance of hundreds of fireflies on the way to the main fire at night.
THIS YEAR : We will re-build THE CAIRN. All participants are encouraged to bring a meaningful rock to the Festival to add to the Cairn. This Cairn is symbolic of our community and a spiritual reminder of those of us who have passed away to the Summerlands...
The Cairn will be built and blessed in ritual (s)
We have an exciting array of presenters such as:
Donata Ahern (Past life regressions/ Shamanic journey and fire ceremony of release) , Joan Goldberg (who brought us wonderful mask and myth presentations) , Prince Bamidele Bajowa (Ifa tradition) , Christin Dennis (Lakota tradition) , Zsuzsa Namaste (Firewalking guide) , David Turner (Druidic tradition) , Brian Walsh (Celtic re-constructionist tradition) , Catherine Starr (Wicca and NROOGD traditions) , Jenn Howey (Yogini) , Laurie Benson (Herbalist and Green witch) John Corvus (Roma tradition) , Herb Walks, Drumming, Dowsing, Sand scrying as well as rituals of many flavours and for all to attend.
There is no drumming curfew at our events and in addition to the nightly bonfire where drumming/dancing/chanting take place until dawn (and sometimes more)
An array of concerts will be provided by:
DAVID HICKEY (crystaljourney dot ca) on Saturday night.
David is an awesome sound journey guide. Working with quartz crystal bowls and other resounding instruments, his concerts generate deep healing energy. We are honoured to have him with us this year;
THE POTENTIALS (wild band of busker friends from the UK, fabulous eclectic musicians, offering a traditional sound of Celtic flavour!)
Toronto composer and performer JEN HOWEY (and friends) will offer a Gaia Inspired Musical Presentation featuring excerpts from Jen's upcoming concept album "Plantgirlelectric"
KENNY KLEIN will perform his own blend of traditional and Pagan compositions and lend his fiddle to the rest of the event.
SPECIAL ACTIVITIES available this year; (These are the "real" thing and each takes many hours of committed time to complete. This is an outstanding opportunity. Sign up list upon arrival.) These activities are: FIREWALKING and mixed traditional LAKOTA SWEAT LODGES
Life at Wic-Can Fest is, we are told, distinctly different from other events having a unique Canadian flavour and boasting a high quality of presentations, rituals and workshops by teachers and elders in good standing in their respective traditions. Wic-Can fest is ideal to make contact with and learn about different Pagan paths.
It is waking up groggy after dancing and drumming all night at the fire-pit to make your way to the kitchen for some fresh coffee, smiling at friends, shopping in the marketplace, learning and experiencing magical skills and traditions, participating in rituals, taking a nap, going to a Sweatlodge or Firewalking, sharing a good meal with your new friends and family, going to concerts and storytelling fires, weaving Moon Magic, Celebrating the Sun, lighting a camp fire to share, grabbing your drum, sarong, flute and shakers to make your way to the common fire and dance and make music and talk with that special friend all night long, until sun up!
It is family friendly and provides kids and their parents an opportunity to simply be and celebrate with people of their own faith and wisdom by providing magically themed activities throughout the duration as well as swim times in the pool, nature walks, arts and crafts, scavenger hunts and night games.
As always, we offer men's and women's rites; why is that? We recognize our differences and provide a ritual context to share energies with people of the same gender where folks can freely and openly share rites of passage and rituals tailored to a single gender. Of course, the majority of rituals remains open to all to give you a chance to learn from and experience first hand, the "feel" of different traditions.
Included is a Free feast on Saturday night for all to join in, a Bardic Competition and more than I can list here.
We are still adding info to our newly redesigned website, and are currently working on this Summer's exciting program! Be sure to visit us often for updates, more details and to register at our website and/or join our Facebook group " Wic-Can Fest!"
Bring your musical instruments, Pagan regalia, camping gear, positive cheerful attitude and join in the fun! Come and be a part of our magical village as we celebrate the mysteries of the Gods and Goddesses; This will be a year to remember!
Merry Meet and Blessed Be !
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Fw: DailyOM: Conscious Evolution
Posted by: "Beth Patterson" purrrpaws4444@yahoo.com purrrpaws4444
Thu May 12, 2011 10:40 am (PDT)
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Conscious Evolution
Being Aware is the First Step
Awareness is the first step to creating change in any situation, without it, there would be no desire for change.
Life is a journey comprised of many steps on our personal path that takes us down a winding road of constant evolution. And each day, we are provided with a myriad of opportunities that can allow us to transform into our next best selves. One moment we are presented with an opportunity to react differently when yet another someone in our life rubs us the wrong way; on another day we may find ourselves wanting to walk away from a particular circumstance but are not sure if we can. Eventually, we may find ourselves stuck in a rut that we can never seem to get out of. We may even make the same choices over and over again because we don't know how to choose otherwise. Rather than moving us forward, our personal paths may take us in a seemingly never-ending circle where our actions and choices lead us nowhere but to where we've already been. It is during these moments that awareness can be the first step to change.
Awareness is when we are able to realize what we are doing. We observe ourselves, noticing our reactions, actions, and choices as if we were a detached viewer. Awareness is the first step to change because we can't make a change unless we are aware that one needs to be made in the first place. We can then begin understanding why we are doing what we are doing. Afterward, it becomes difficult not to change because we are no longer asleep to the truth behind our behaviors. We also begin to realize that, just as much as we are the root source behind the causes for our behaviors, we are also the originator for any changes that we want to happen.
There is a freedom that comes with awareness. Rather than thinking that we are stuck in a repetitive cycle where there is no escape, we begin to see that we very much play a hand in creating our lives. Whether we are aware of them or not, our behaviors and choices are always ours to make. Our past and our present no longer have to dictate our future when we choose to be aware. We are then free to move beyond our old limits, make new choices, and take new actions. With awareness, our paths can't help but wind us forward in our lives while paving the way for new experiences and new ways of being. It is through awareness that we can continue to consciously evolve.
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Fw: Daily Ray of Hope
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Please place in your prayer bowls
Posted by: "Angelsvoice Eissey" angelsvoice25@hotmail.com angelsvoice75
Thu May 12, 2011 1:04 pm (PDT)
My b/fs son in in afganistan (i believe i mentioned before), Well yesterday he watched his LT die infront of him and he isnt dealing with it very well. Please pray for him and his unit. This is the 2nd time something has happened to his unit in less then 2 months. The first time his unit was it with a ied, his truck got pass thank goddess but the one behind him didnt and they had extensive injuries. He has only been over there 4 months. Thanks in advance
Blessed Be!
Angelsvoice
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Re: Please place in your prayer bowls
Posted by: "Lady Nightshayde" LadyNightshayde9@aol.com nightshayde99
Thu May 12, 2011 2:24 pm (PDT)
Consider it done.
My b/fs son in in afganistan (i believe i mentioned before), Well yesterday he watched his LT die infront of him and he isnt dealing with it very well. Please pray for him and his unit. This is the 2nd time something has happened to his unit in less then 2 months. The first time his unit was it with a ied, his truck got pass thank goddess but the one behind him didnt and they had extensive injuries. He has only been over there 4 months. Thanks in advance
The light of a hundred stars cannot equal the light of the Moon.
Love Each Day,
Lady Nightshayde
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Re: Please place in your prayer bowls
Posted by: "LadyFromDover@aol.com" LadyFromDover@aol.com ladyfromdover
Thu May 12, 2011 4:40 pm (PDT)
angle voice I will pray for your b/f son I can imagine what he is going
thru as my son was serving in Iraq a few years ago and his best friend died
in his arms after a attack, it took my son a long time to get over that,
love and prayers being sent.
Pam. - 4d.
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Re: Please place in your prayer bowls
Posted by: "Beth Patterson" purrrpaws4444@yahoo.com purrrpaws4444
Thu May 12, 2011 6:22 pm (PDT)
Prayers sent Angelsvoice ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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--- On Thu, 5/12/11, Angelsvoice Eissey <angelsvoice25@hotmail.com > wrote:
From: Angelsvoice Eissey <angelsvoice25@hotmail.com >
Subject: [13Witches] Please place in your prayer bowls
To: "13 witches" <13witches@yahoogroups.com >, new_jersey_pagans@yahoogroups. com
Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011, 7:58 PM
My b/fs son in in afganistan (i believe i mentioned before), Well yesterday he watched his LT die infront of him and he isnt dealing with it very well. Please pray for him and his unit. This is the 2nd time something has happened to his unit in less then 2 months. The first time his unit was it with a ied, his truck got pass thank goddess but the one behind him didnt and they had extensive injuries. He has only been over there 4 months. Thanks in advance
Blessed Be!
Angelsvoice
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Daily Feng Shui Tip
Posted by: "Lady Nightshayde" LadyNightshayde9@aol.com nightshayde99
Thu May 12, 2011 2:28 pm (PDT)
Daily Feng Shui Tip by Ellen Whitehurst for Thursday, May 12
There were once three herb plants called rosemary. Brought into the house because financials were scary. On the kitchen sill they would sit, until real big money was git. Because that's what was promised by Miss Ellen Mary. In case you didn't know, today is 'Limerick Day,' but sorry fellas, this little piece of pure poetry is for women only! If you're a female looking for financial independence and an exponential increase in your bottom line, then place three live and healthy rosemary plants on a kitchen windowsill, or anywhere near a window in that same room. Nurture these plants and love them for what they are about to bring to you! Take very good care of them. They can quickly help to grow some green in your wallet and much more of the same in other areas of your life. Forget about adding zest and tang to the baked chicken, let's spice up your earned income and get that 401K back in the black!
The light of a hundred stars cannot equal the light of the Moon.
Love Each Day,
Lady Nightshayde
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Paraskevidekatriaphobia: Fear of Friday the 13th
Posted by: "Lady Nightshayde" LadyNightshayde9@aol.com nightshayde99
Thu May 12, 2011 6:41 pm (PDT)
Paraskevidekatriaphobia: Friday the 13th Origins, History, and Folklore
By David Emery, About.com Guide
Friday the 13th
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I HAVE before me the abstract of a 1993 study published in the British Medical Journal provocatively titled "Is Friday the 13th Bad for Your Health?" With the aim of mapping "the relation between health, behaviour, and superstition surrounding Friday 13th in the United Kingdom," its authors compared the ratio of traffic volume to the number of automobile accidents on two different days, Friday the 6th and Friday the 13th, over a period of years. Incredibly, they found that in the region sampled, while consistently fewer people chose to drive their cars on Friday the 13th, the number of hospital admissions due to vehicular accidents was significantly higher than on "normal" Fridays. Their conclusion: "Friday 13th is unlucky for some. The risk of hospital admission as a result of a transport accident may be increased by as much as 52 percent. Staying at home is recommended." Paraskevidekatriaph obics " people afflicted with a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th " will be pricking up their ears about now, buoyed by seeming evidence that the source of their unholy terror may not be so irrational after all. But it's unwise to take solace in a single scientific study, especially one so peculiar. I suspect these statistics have more to teach us about human psychology than the ill-fatedness of any particular date on the calendar. Friday the 13th, 'the most widespread superstition' The sixth day of the week and the number 13 both have foreboding reputations said to date from ancient times, and their inevitable conjunction from one to three times a year (there happens to be only one such occurrence in 2010, in the month of August) portends more misfortune than some credulous minds can bear. According to some sources it's the most widespread superstition in the United States today. Some people refuse to go to work on Friday the 13th; some won't eat in restaurants; many wouldn't think of setting a wedding on the date. How many Americans at the beginning of the 21st century suffer from this condition? According to Dr. Donald Dossey, a psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of phobias (and coiner of the term paraskevidekatriaph obia, also spelled paraskavedekatriaph obia), the figure may be as high as 21 million. If he's right, no fewer than eight percent of Americans remain in the grips of a very old superstition.
Exactly how old is difficult to say, because determining the origins of superstitions is an inexact science, at best. In fact, it's mostly guesswork.
LEGEND HAS IT: If 13 people sit down to dinner together, one will die within the year. The Turks so disliked the number 13 that it was practically expunged from their vocabulary (Brewer, 1894). Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue. Many buildings don't have a 13th floor. If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck (Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13 letters in their names). There are 13 witches in a coven.
The Devil's Dozen
Although no one can say for sure when and why human beings first associated the number 13 with misfortune, the superstition is assumed to be quite old, and there exist any number of theories " most of which deserve to be treated with a healthy skepticism, please note " purporting to trace its origins to antiquity and beyond. It has been proposed, for example, that fears surrounding the number 13 are as ancient as the act of counting. Primitive man had only his 10 fingers and two feet to represent units, this explanation goes, so he could count no higher than 12. What lay beyond that " 13 " was an impenetrable mystery to our prehistoric forebears, hence an object of superstition. Which has an edifying ring to it, but one is left wondering: did primitive man not have toes?
Life and death Despite whatever terrors the numerical unknown held for their hunter-gatherer ancestors, ancient civilizations weren't unanimous in their dread of 13. The Chinese regarded the number as lucky, some commentators note, as did the Egyptians in the time of the pharaohs. To the ancient Egyptians, these sources tell us, life was a quest for spiritual ascension which unfolded in stages-- twelve in this life and a thirteenth beyond, thought to be the eternal afterlife. The number 13 therefore symbolized death, not in terms of dust and decay but as a glorious and desirable transformation. Though Egyptian civilization perished, the symbolism conferred on the number 13 by its priesthood survived, we may speculate, only to be corrupted by subsequent cultures who came to associate 13 with a fear of death instead of a reverence for the afterlife.
Anathema Still other sources speculate that the number 13 may have been purposely vilified by the founders of patriarchal religions in the early days of western civilization because it represented femininity. Thirteen had been revered in prehistoric goddess-worshiping cultures, we are told, because it corresponded to the number of lunar (menstrual) cycles in a year (13 x 28 = 364 days). The "Earth Mother of Laussel," for example " a 27,000-year-old carving found near the Lascaux caves in France often cited as an icon of matriarchal spirituality " depicts a female figure holding a crescent-shaped horn bearing 13 notches. As the solar calendar triumphed over the lunar with the rise of male-dominated civilization, it is surmised, so did the "perfect" number 12 over the "imperfect" number 13, thereafter considered anathema. On the other hand, one of the earliest concrete taboos associated with the number 13, a taboo still observed by some superstitious folks today, apparently " is said to have originated in the East with the Hindus, who believed, for reasons I haven't been able to ascertain, that it is always unlucky for 13 people to gather in one place , say, at dinner. Interestingly enough, precisely the same superstition has been attributed to the ancient Vikings (though I have also been told, for what it's worth, that this and the accompanying mythographical explanation are apocryphal).
The story has been laid down as follows: And Loki makes thirteen Twelve gods were invited to a banquet at Valhalla. Loki, the Evil One, god of mischief, had been left off the guest list but crashed the party, bringing the total number of attendees to 13. True to character, Loki raised hell by inciting Hod, the blind god of winter, to attack Balder the Good, who was a favorite of the gods. Hod took a spear of mistletoe offered by Loki and obediently hurled it at Balder, killing him instantly. All Valhalla grieved. And although one might take the moral of this story to be "Beware of uninvited guests bearing mistletoe," the Norse themselves apparently concluded that 13 people at a dinner party is just plain bad luck. As if to prove the point, the Bible tells us there were exactly 13 present at the Last Supper. One of the dinner guests, er, disciples, betrayed Jesus Christ, setting the stage for the Crucifixion.
Did I mention the Crucifixion took place on a Friday?
LEGEND HAS IT: Never change your bed on Friday; it will bring bad dreams. Don't start a trip on Friday or you will have misfortune. If you cut your nails on Friday, you cut them for sorrow. Ships that set sail on a Friday will have bad luck-- as in the tale of H.M.S. Friday ... One hundred years ago, the British government sought to quell once and for all the widespread superstition among seamen that setting sail on Fridays was unlucky. A special ship was commissioned, named "H.M.S. Friday." They laid her keel on a Friday, launched her on a Friday, selected her crew on a Friday and hired a man named Jim Friday to be her captain. To top it off, H.M.S. Friday embarked on her maiden voyage on a Friday, and was never seen or heard from again.
Bad Friday
Some say Friday's bad reputation goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden. It was on a Friday, supposedly, that Eve tempted Adam with the forbidden fruit. Adam bit, as we all learned in Sunday School, and they were both ejected from Paradise. Tradition also holds that the Great Flood began on a Friday; God tongue-tied the builders of the Tower of Babel on a Friday; the Temple of Solomon was destroyed on a Friday; and, of course, Friday was the day of the week on which Christ was crucified. It is therefore a day of penance for Christians. In pagan Rome, Friday was execution day (later Hangman's Day in Britain), but in other pre-Christian cultures it was the sabbath, a day of worship, so those who indulged in secular or self-interested activities on that day could not expect to receive blessings from the gods, which may explain the lingering taboo on embarking on journeys or starting important projects on Fridays.
To complicate matters, these pagan associations were not lost on the early Church, which went to great lengths to suppress them. If Friday was a holy day for heathens, the Church fathers felt, it must not be so for Christians, thus it became known in the Middle Ages as the "Witches' Sabbath," and thereby hangs another tale.
The Witch-Goddess
The name "Friday" was derived from a Norse deity worshipped on the sixth day, known either as Frigg (goddess of marriage and fertility), or Freya (goddess of sex and fertility), or both, the two figures having become intertwined in the handing down of myths over time (the etymology of "Friday" has been given both ways). Frigg/Freya corresponded to Venus, the goddess of love of the Romans, who named the sixth day of the week in her honor "dies Veneris." Friday was actually considered quite lucky by pre-Christian Teutonic peoples, we are told " especially as a day to get married " because of its traditional association with love and fertility. All that changed when Christianity came along. The goddess of the sixth day--most likely Freya in this context, given that the cat was her sacred animal-- was recast in post-pagan folklore as a witch, and her day became associated with evil doings.
Various legends developed in that vein, but one is of particular interest: As the story goes, the witches of the north used to observe their sabbath by gathering in a cemetery in the dark of the moon. On one such occasion the Friday goddess, Freya herself, came down from her sanctuary in the mountaintops and appeared before the group, who numbered only 12 at the time, and gave them one of her cats, after which the witches' coven and, by "tradition," every properly-formed coven since comprised exactly 13.
The astute reader will have observed that while we have thus far insinuated any number of intriguing connections between events, practices and beliefs attributed to ancient cultures and the superstitious fear of Fridays and the number 13, we have yet to happen upon an explanation of how, why, or when these separate strands of folklore converged if that is indeed what happened-- to mark Friday the 13th as the unluckiest day of all. There's a very simple reason for that: nobody really knows, and few concrete explanations have been proposed.
The Knights Templar One theory, recently offered up as historical fact in the novel The Da Vinci Code, holds that the stigma came about not as the result of a convergence, but because of a catastrophe, a single historical event that happened nearly 700 years ago. The "catastrophe" was the decimation of the Knights Templar, the legendary order of "warrior monks" formed during the Christian Crusades to combat Islam. Renowned as a fighting force for 200 years, by the 1300s the order had grown so pervasive and powerful it was perceived as a political threat by kings and popes alike and brought down by a church-state conspiracy, as recounted by Katharine Kurtz in Tales of the Knights Templar (Warner Books, 1995):
On October 13, 1307, a day so infamous that Friday the 13th would become a synonym for ill fortune, officers of King Philip IV of France carried out mass arrests in a well-coordinated dawn raid that left several thousand Templars " knights, sergeants, priests, and serving brethren â in chains, charged with heresy, blasphemy, various obscenities, and homosexual practices. None of these charges was ever proven, even in France , and the Order was found innocent elsewhere ,but in the seven years following the arrests, hundreds of Templars suffered excruciating tortures intended to force "confessions," and more than a hundred died under torture or were executed by burning at the stake.
A thoroughly modern phenomenon There are problems with the "day so infamous" thesis, not the least of which is that it attributes enormous cultural significance to a relatively obscure historical event. Even more problematic for this or any other theory positing premodern origins for Friday the 13th superstitions is the fact that no one has been able to document the existence of such beliefs prior to the late 19th century. If folks who lived in earlier ages perceived Friday the 13th as a day of special misfortune, no evidence has been found to document it. As a result, some scholars are now convinced the stigma is a thoroughly modern phenomenon exacerbated by 20th-century media hype.
Going back more than a hundred years, Friday the 13th doesn't even merit a mention in the 1898 edition of E. Cobham Brewer's voluminous Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, though one does find entries for "Friday, an Unlucky Day" and "Thirteen Unlucky." When the date of ill fate finally does make an appearance in later editions of the text, it is without extravagant claims as to the superstition's historicity or longevity. The very brevity of the entry is instructive: "Friday the Thirteenth: A particularly unlucky Friday. See Thirteen" implying that the extra dollop of misfortune might be accounted for in terms of a simple accrual, as it were, of bad omens:
UNLUCKY FRIDAY + UNLUCKY 13 = UNLUCKIER FRIDAY
If that's the case, we are guilty of perpetuating a misnomer by labeling Friday the 13th "the unluckiest day of all," a designation perhaps better reserved for, say, a Friday the 13th on which one breaks a mirror, walks under a ladder, spills the salt, and spies a black cat crossing one's path-- a day, if there ever was one, best spent in the safety of one's own home with doors locked, shutters closed, and fingers crossed.
Postscript: A novel theory
In 13: The Story of the World's Most Popular Superstition (Avalon, 2004), author Nathaniel Lachenmeyer argues that the commingling of "unlucky Friday" and "unlucky 13" took place in the pages of a specific literary work, a novel published in 1907 titled -- what else? --" Friday, the Thirteenth. The book, all but forgotten now, concerned dirty dealings in the stock market and sold quite well in its day. Both the titular phrase and the phobic premise behind it, namely that superstitious people regard Friday the 13th as a supremely unlucky day, were instantly adopted and popularized by the press.
It seems unlikely that the novelist, Thomas W. Lawson, literally invented that premise himself; he treats it within the story, in fact, as a notion that already existed in the public consciousness -- but he most certainly lent it gravitas and set it on a path to becoming the most widespread superstition in modern times.
Sources and further reading (updated):
Bowen, John. "Friday the 13th." Salon magazine, 13 Aug 1999.
Brewer, E. Cobham. The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. (1898 Edition in Hypertext).
"Days of the Week: Friday." The Mystical World Wide Web.
de Lys, Claudia. The Giant Book of Superstitions. New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1979.
Duncan, David E. Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year. New York: Avon, 1998.
Ferm, Vergilius. A Brief Dictionary of American Superstitions. New York: Philosophical Library, 1965.
Krischke, Wolfgang. "This Just Might Be Your Lucky Day." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 1 Nov 2001.
Kurtz, Katharine. Tales of the Knights Templar. New York: Warner Books, 1995.
Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel. 13: The Story of the World's Most Popular Superstition. New York: Avalon, 2004.
Lawson, Thomas W. Friday, the Thirteenth. New York: Doubleday, 1907.
Opie, Iona and Tatem, Moira. A Dictionary of Superstitions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Panati, Charles. Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things. New York: Harper Collins, 1989.
Q and A: Triskaidekaphobia. New York Times, 8 Aug 1993.
Scanlon, T.J., et al. "Is Friday the 13th Bad for Your Health?" British Medical Journal. (Dec. 18-25, 1993): 1584-6.
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What are you Doing on Friday the 13th?
Posted by: "Lady Nightshayde" LadyNightshayde9@aol.com nightshayde99
Thu May 12, 2011 6:46 pm (PDT)
What are you doing on Friday the 13th?
The coven is having a Friday the 13th party, complete with horror movies, food and drink that is red, and we are dressing up as our favorite horror movie character.
Have a very happy Friday the 13th!
Lady Nightshayde
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Facts About Friday the 13th
Posted by: "Lady Nightshayde" LadyNightshayde9@aol.com nightshayde99
Thu May 12, 2011 6:50 pm (PDT)
Facts About Friday the 13th
The origin of the link between bad luck and Friday the 13th is murky. The whole thing might date to Biblical times (the 13th guest at the Last Supper betrayed Jesus). By the Middle Ages, both Friday and 13 were considered bearers of bad fortune. In modern times, the superstition permeates society.
Here are five of our favorite Friday-the-13th facts:
1. Fear of Friday the 13th - one of the most popular myths in science - is called paraskavedekatriaphobia as well as friggatriskaidekaph obia. Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13.
2. Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor and some airline terminals omit Gate 13.
3. President Franklin D. Roosevelt would not travel on the 13th day of any month and would never host 13 guests at a meal. Napoleon and President Herbert Hoover were also triskaidekaphobic, with an abnormal fear of the number 13.
4. Mark Twain once was the 13th guest at a dinner party. A friend warned him not to go. "It was bad luck," Twain later told the friend. "They only had food for 12." Superstitious diners in Paris can hire a quatorzieme, or professional 14th guest.
5. The number 13 suffers from its position after 12, according to numerologists who consider the latter to be a complete number - 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles of Jesus, 12 days of Christmas and 12 eggs in a dozen.
Pythagorean legacy
Meanwhile the belief that numbers are connected to life and physical things - called numerology - has a long history.
"You can trace it all the way from the followers of Pythagoras, whose maxim to describe the universe was 'all is number,'" says Mario Livio, an astrophysicist and author of "The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved" (Simon & Schuster, 2005). Thinkers who studied under the famous Greek mathematician combined numbers in different ways to explain everything around them, Livio said.
In modern times, numerology has become a type of para-science, much like the meaningless predictions of astrology, scientists say.
"People are subconsciously drawn towards specific numbers because they know that they need the experiences, attributes or lessons associated with them, that are contained within their potential," says professional numerologist Sonia Ducie. "Numerology can 'make sense' of an individual's life (health, career, relationships, situations and issues) by recognizing which number cycle they are in, and by giving them clarity."
However, mathematicians dismiss numerology, saying it lacks any scientific merit.
"I don't endorse this at all," Livio said, when asked to comment on the popularity of commercial numerology. Seemingly coincidental connections between numbers will always appear if you look hard enough, he said.
from www.llivescience.com
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Freaky Friday
Posted by: "Lady Nightshayde" LadyNightshayde9@aol.com nightshayde99
Thu May 12, 2011 6:51 pm (PDT)
Freaky Friday
Ever wonder what the big deal is about Friday the
13th? We did, and found most of the superstition is
rooted in religion.
Let us catalog our woes of the moment: North Korean
scud missiles intercepted off the coast of Yemen,
impending war in Iraq, priests demanding Cardinal
Bernard Law's resignation, the South Pole melting,
Christmas shopping. And on top of it all, a dreaded
Friday the 13th.
Ever wonder what the big deal is about this silly
date? We did. It turns out the history of Friday the
13th is complicated. There are superstitions about
Friday, superstitions about the number 13â€"-which
together seem to create the fear of Friday the 13th.
Most of these superstitions are rooted in religion.
Amazingly, folklorists say Friday the 13th is probably
the most widespread superstition in America. There's
even a name for the phobia attached to it:
paraskevidekatriaphobia. Maybe a little information
(see below) will help sufferers of this phobia. Or
maybe we'll all just dive for cover on Friday the
13th.
Superstitions about the Number 13
According to the 1925 book Popular Superstitions, fear
of the number 13 is so widespread around the world
that "it seems clear that, to the primitive mind of
early Man, [13] had no real meaning--he stopped at 12.
So persistent are these old instincts that, even
today, we stop at `Twelve Times Twelve' in our school
multiplication triplication tables, though there is
absolutely no reason whatever why we should do so."
According to this theory, since 13 represented the
unknown to primitive people, it was "dangerous."
According to David Emery of About.com, 13-phobia may
have come from the Hindus, who apparently believed it
was always unlucky for 13 people to gather in one
place. A version of the same superstition also from
the Vikings: Twelve gods were invited to a banquet at
Valhalla. Loki, the Evil One, god of mischief, had
been excluded from the guest list but crashed the
party, bringing the total to 13. Loki then proceeded
to incite Hod, the blind god of winter, to attack
Balder the Good, who was a favorite of the gods. Hod
took a spear of mistletoe offered by Loki and hurled
it at Balder, killing him instantly.
Sometime after that moment in history, the
superstition attached itself to the story of the Last
Supper of Jesus and the 12 disciples. (Twelve plus one
equals 13.) Judas, who rose first from the table, was
the first to die.
On the other hand, the Egyptians at the time of the
pharoahs considered 13 lucky, because they believed
life unfolded in 12 stages, and that there was a 13th
stageâ€"the afterlifeâ€"beyond. That meant the number 13
symbolized deathâ€"as a happy transformation. Egyptian
civilization perished, but the symbolism of the number
13 lived on as fear of death. (In Tarot decks the
"Death" card bears the number 13 but retains its
original, positive meaning: transformation.)
In ancient goddess-worshipping cultures 13 was also a
lucky number--because it corresponded to the number of
lunar (menstrual) cycles in a year (13 x 28 = 364
days). (The "Earth Mother of Laussel," a
27,000-year-old carving near the Lascaux caves in
France, depicts a female figure holding a
crescent-shaped horn bearing 13 notches.) Later,
according to some historians, 13 got a bad
nameâ€"particularly among early Christian
patriarchs--because it represented femininity.
Superstitions about Friday
Many people consider Friday unlucky because that's the
day of Jesus' Crucifixion, but historians believe the
superstition goes much farther back and has something
to do with the sacrifices offered to the goddess Frigg
(goddess of marriage and fertility) or Freya (goddess
of sex and fertility) or both, in Norse mythology.
Frigg/Freya's emblem was the fish, which was
associated with the worship of love and was offered by
the Scandinavians to their goddess on the sixth day of
the week, Friday. But the worship of love on Fridays,
according to Popular Superstitions, developed into "a
series of filthy and indecent rites and practices."
According to Emery, Friday was considered lucky,
especially as a day to get married, because of its
associations with love. In other pagan cultures,
Friday was the sabbath, a day of worship. Once
Christianity entered the scene, Freyaâ€"whose sacred
animal was a cat--was recast in folklore as a witch.
In the Middle Ages, Friday was known as the "Witches'
Sabbath."
Later, early Christians began attributing just about
everything terrible to Friday: Eve offering Adam the
apple in the Garden of Eden; Abel's murder by his
brother, Cain; St. Stephen's stoning; the Massacre of
the Innocents by Herod; the flight of the children of
Israel through the Red Sea; the Great Flood; the
destruction of the Temple of Solomon; and the
Confusion of Tongues at the Tower of Babel.
Which brings us to…
Superstitions about Friday the 13th
Add it up, and Friday the 13th is clearly doomed as a
bad luck kinda day.
Most historians believe the main reason--in addition
to all the gloom and doom you just read above--stems
from the Last Supper. Jesus and his 12 disciples
gathered in the Upper Room, where Jesus predicted that
one of them would betray him. Here is how Jesus' words
are portrayed in the Gospel: "Jesus answered them,
Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a
devil? He spake of Judas Iscariot . . for he it was
that should betray him." (John 6: 70-71)
And that scene, of course, set the stage for the
Crucifixion, on Good Friday.
Some sources add an additional wrinkle, however. They
pinpoint the origin of Friday the 13th-phobia to a
specific historical event: the rounding up of the
Knights Templar for torture and execution by King
Philip IV of France on Friday, October 13, 1307.
Read and weep. Shiver with fear. Dive for cover.
By Deborah Caldwell
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Number 13 Lore
Posted by: "Lady Nightshayde" LadyNightshayde9@aol.com nightshayde99
Thu May 12, 2011 6:56 pm (PDT)
NUMBER 13 LORE
Someone tells you their address--1313 Elm Street. How do you react? Does this make you uncomfortable? If so, then you're not alone. Superstition about this number persists in Western society, despite the fact that there is no logic for fear of any particular number. Fear of this number has even earned its own name--triskaidekaphobia.
Many historians attribute the fear of this number to the fate of Jesus Christ who, surrounded by his twelve apostles, was the thirteenth guest at the Last Supper. However, pre-Christian Norse mythology also depicts unfortunate events following the arrival of the thirteenth dinner guest at Odin's banquet, which suggests triskaidekaphobia has deeper roots. According to legend, twelve gods feasted when the god Loki appeared and triggered an argument which resulted in the death of Baldur, the beloved god of light. In the end, these tales have led to current-day superstition that says if thirteen people dine at a table, one person will die within a year of the feast.
The fear of the number 13 has lasted through the centuries. The ancient Romans associated the number with destruction. Even children's fairy stories have been affected. Several versions of the story of Sleeping Beauty tell of the king who invited only twelve of the thirteen fairies to his table because he owned only twelve gold plates to set at the table. Each of the twelve fairies came and gave the king's daughter a magical gift, such as patience or beauty. The thirteenth fairy who was not invited, and who is often depicted as an ugly old hag, embarrassed the whole gathering by coming anyway. In retaliation for not being invited, instead of a gift, she brought a curse. On the princess's fifteenth birthday, Sleeping Beauty would die after pricking herself with a spindle. Even the twelfth good fairy, who was yet to bestow a gift to the king's daughter, was not able to undo this curse with her gift. She was, however, able to change the fate of death to a sleep of one hundred years.
Despite the fact that technology and scientific logic today dictate much of our understanding of the world, this simple superstition still pervades the Western world. Hotels and other multistory buildings in cities throughout many parts of the world even avoid having a "thirteenth floor." More recently, a fear of the number thirteen was fueled by the ill-fated journey of the Apollo 13 space mission. On April 13, 1970, the oxygen tank on the spaceship exploded forcing an end to the mission, and the three astronauts nearly died. Many attributed this disaster to the prominent number 13 of the mission.
Additional superstition is aroused if the thirteenth day of the month falls on Friday. This has been attributed to Friday being the day on which Christ died on the cross. Put Friday and the number 13 together, and you have two bad omens. Interestingly, every calendar year will feature at least one Friday the thirteenth.
In the Tarot deck, the thirteenth card symbolized death. The first impression of the macabre skeleton on card number thirteen in the Major Arcana conjures up feelings of dread, no doubt fueled by the number of the card. Yet the death card remains a widely misunderstood part of the Tarot deck. Those familiar with Tarot interpretation understand that instead of representing a morbid physical death, the card often signifies transformation, the end of a cycle, and opportunity for rebirth, growth, and new beginnings.
Paradoxically, many people embrace the ill-luck of the number 13. Some dote on the number 13, and wear charms with the number inscribed on it. In the ancient religion of Mexico, the number was regarded as a lucky symbol of the Sun, and thought to represent omnipotent male energy. In the Qabala, the number 13 is also considered fortunate. Keen numerology students are aware that if you are born on the thirteenth day of any month, you are destined to be practical, alert, and intelligent with a high chance of success in scientific endeavors.
For Pagans and Wiccans, number 13 is regarded as significant and lucky. From a nature-centered spiritual perspective, the number represents the feminine essence and cycle, with thirteen lunar journeys, or full Moon cycles, occurring in each solar year. Many covens limit their group number to thirteen members.
Whatever your viewpoint on number 13, mixed reactions to this number over centuries have provoked varied emotions from trepidation to positive feelings. It's up to you to choose how you feel about this mysterious number. by Emely Flak
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Fun Friday--Tough Exam
Posted by: "Lady Nightshayde" LadyNightshayde9@aol.com nightshayde99
Thu May 12, 2011 8:16 pm (PDT)
Tough Exam
An eccentric philosophy professor gave a one question final exam aftera semester dealing with a broad array of topics.
The class was already seated and ready to go when the professor pickedup his chair, plopped it on his desk and wrote on the board: "Usingeverything we have learned this semester, prove that this chair doesnot exist."
Fingers flew, erasers erased, notebooks were filled in furiousfashion. Some students wrote over 30 pages in one hour attempting torefute the existence of the chair. One member of the class however,was up and finished in less than a minute.
Weeks later when the grades were posted, the rest of the groupwondered how he could have gotten an A when he had barely writtenanything at all. His answer consisted of two words: "What chair?"
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