Weekend Wrap-up Dec. 14: Unlucky Day?

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Weekend Wrap-up Dec. 14: Unlucky Day?

Did you know that at one time in history, Saturday the 14th was the unlucky day?

Mount Vesuvius was the first recorded Saturday the 14th bad luck event. Archeologists uncovered a papyrus fragment which seems to be a partial transcript of a conversation which read: “What the heck was that?”

The survivors then came up with a set of rituals to be performed on Friday the 13th to ward of the evil of the next day. This included spilling salt, walking under ladders, opening umbrellas indoors, releasing 100s of black cats, and breaking mirrors.

This seemed to solve the problem until Julius Caesar introduced the leap year, throwing the whole system out of whack. Then Nero burned Rome to the ground on what would have been a Saturday the 14th, setting of the superstition that Friday the 13 was the unlucky day.

True story.

-Leon

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Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.

My new book page: http://books.linesbyleon.com/