Are you superstitious? It’s amazing how, no matter how realistic and intelligent a person is, they can still feel compelled to complete the rituals involved in superstitions,(throwing spilled salt over your left shoulder) or avoid things that make no sense, like walking under a ladder, or stepping on a sidewalk crack.
Which superstitions to you follow, even though you know better?
Are there ones that you believe actually affect people if they happen? ( A black cat crosses in front of you, you break a mirror)
What’s the one about masturbation will make you go blind? lol
Are there any superstitions particular to the making movie business?
There are many theories as to where this Unlucky day came from. One is as good as another I guess…
The actual origin of the superstition, though, appears also to be a tale in Norse mythology. Friday is named for Frigga, the free-spirited goddess of love and fertility. When Norse and Germanic tribes converted to Christianity, Frigga was banished in shame to a mountaintop and labeled a witch. It was believed that every Friday, the spiteful goddess convened a meeting with eleven other witches, plus the devil – a gathering of thirteen – and plotted ill turns of fate for the coming week. For many centuries in Scandinavia, Friday was known as "Witches’ Sabbath.
Charles Panati, Panati’s Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things, 1987, p. 13.
Happy Friday the 13th!