Friday the 13th is just another day in a year, but for some people it is a very bad and unlucky day. They refuse to buy houses, travel and even go out of their houses. In Greece people are even afraid of any date, that contains 13 number.
The founder of the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville Donald Dossey said, “It’s been estimated that  $800 or $900 million is lost in business on this day because people will not fly or do business they would normally do.”
So why did this date become so unlucky?
In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve signs of the zodiac, twelve hours of the clock, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostles of Jesus, twelve gods of Olympus, etc. Whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness.
There’s also a myth, that is connected with this date.
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.”
Another myth about 12 gods having a dinner party in heaven. The uninvited 13th guest,the mischievous Loki, walked in. Once there, Loki arranged for Hoder, the blind god of darkness, to shoot Balder the Beautiful, the god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow.
“Balder died and the whole Earth got dark. The whole Earth mourned. It was a bad, unlucky day,” said Dossey. From that moment on, the number 13 has been considered ominous and foreboding.

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