My son's Latin teacher in high school had a thing about Friday the 13, and would occasionally miss classes that date. Read about Friday the 13th (a surprisingly recent combination of earlier superstitions that Friday and the number 13 are separately bad luck):
Snopes
Wikipedia (which has some good reference links)
National Geographic News (8/12/2004)
How Stuff Works (the source of the image above, http://people.howstuffworks.com/friday-thirteenth.htm)
Marie! I feel guilty putting in a link to Wikipedia immediately following your post on Wiki-error trolls. But, it does have good links!
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