Black Friday has several meanings
1) the Friday after the American Thanksgiving, which is one of the busiest shopping days in the retail calendar.
2) the last Friday before Christmas
3) Friday 13th
For more information on the Friday the 13th superstition please see the related Question listed below
The start of the Christmas season moves earlier and earlier each year, and it eventually was "begun" by retailers on the Friday after Thanksgiving. In order to get people to shop on that day, stores began to offer significant deals and sales on that Friday. The craziness that shopping on that day has become has earned it the name Black Friday.
Friday the 13th
If a Friday falls on the thirteenth day of a month, it is called ‘Friday the 13th’ or a ‘Black Friday’. Some people consider this date unlucky.
No one knows for sure why so many people believe Friday the 13th is unlucky, but there are a lot of theories.
Here are some of them :
Friday was a traditional day that people were hanged, and there may have been 13 steps leading to the gallows.
There were 13 people at the Last Supper of Jesus Christ. Judas, one of the people at the supper, betrayed Jesus and this led to Jesus’s crucifixion. Some people believe that Jesus was also crucified on a Friday.
Another theory is that Friday is the day Adam and Eve were thrown out of the Garden of Eden.
The number 12 is seen as a special number in many religions and myths, so the number 13 is seen as unlucky, or ‘wrong.’
The Canterbury Tales (written in the 14th century) by Geoffrey Chaucer mention that Friday is an unlucky day.
Various books that have bad events happening on Friday the 13th are sometimes cited as the origin of the superstition.
On Friday 13 October 1307, lots of members of the Knights Templar group were arrested in France.
There are special words that can be used for fear of the number thirteen ‘triskaidekaphobia’ and of Friday the 13th ‘paraskevidekatriaphobia’.
Friday the 13th is not known as black friday..... black friday is the day after thanksgiving when stores open early and have a lot of sales
As it is customary to wear black at a funeral, friday the 13th is ominous with death
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Friday the 13th (1980) Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) Friday the 13th Part III (1982) Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986) Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) Jason X (2001) Freddy vs. Jason (2003) Friday the 13th (2009)
Friday the 13th part VI was made in 1986, and Friday the 13th part VII was made in 1988; but there was no Friday the 13th made in 1987.
There were twelve Friday the 13th movies: Friday the 13th Friday the 13th Part II Friday the 13th Part III (originally in 3D) Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday Jason X Freddy vs. Jason Friday the 13th (2009 remake) The final film was meant to be a remake of the first four. There was also a television show, Friday the 13th: The Series. All movies on TopRater: toprater.com/en/movies/objects/2300351-friday-the-13th-part-2-1981
Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th.
No. I've weared black on Friday the 13th several times, and nothing bad has happened. Pure superstition if people tell you otherwise.SaveNot unless you count mangling the English language as bad!
Today is Friday the 13th, February 13th, 2009, that is!
The next Friday the 13th will be September 13, 2013. The last Friday the 13th happened in July 2012.
May 2011 has Friday the 13th.