Friday the 13th
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The superstition surrounding Friday the 13th is one of the most pervasive and enduring beliefs in Western folklore. Although widely regarded as ancient, its origins are neither singular nor straightforward. Instead, the fear of Friday the 13th emerges from the convergence of two distinct streams of symbolic anxiety: the cultural suspicion of the number thirteen…
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Anyone who has seen the movie ‘Alive’ will be aware of this story. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby union team, their friends, family and associates, that crashed in the Andes on Friday the 13th October 1972, in an incident known as the Andes flight disaster…
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