Rowan & Pine: A Feminist Folklore & Mythology Podcast - October 28, 2023


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00:00:00.000 It's the first of the month on a Sunday.
00:00:08.800 This means that, in 13 days, if you're superstitious, you might stay inside the house and avoid living at all costs.
00:00:18.660 This will happen at least once to you in a calendar year, and up to three times.
00:00:24.320 The day is Friday the 13th.
00:00:30.000 The number 13 has long been thought to be unlucky in Western culture.
00:00:44.980 So much so that most tall buildings or hotels will not have a 13th floor or a 13th room.
00:00:54.220 Most airlines also omit numbering the 13th row in airplanes.
00:00:58.960 Instead, they will skip from 12 to 14.
00:01:08.020 The church has had a big hand in many people's current superstitions on the number 13, and especially Friday the 13th.
00:01:16.740 In the early morning hours of Friday, October 13th, 1307, was the beginning of the end for the Knights Templar.
00:01:24.840 on maundy thursday the night before jesus's crucifixion jesus had his last supper which
00:01:32.940 contained 13 guests the 13th guest to take his seat was judas iscariot the disciple who would
00:01:39.940 betray jesus leading to jesus's arrest trial and execution also in christianity friday is the day
00:01:50.100 that Eve gave Adam the apple from the Tree of Knowledge. Friday is also the day that Cain
00:01:55.500 killed his brother Abel. Friday the 13th is said to also have a few origins within Norse mythology.
00:02:07.620 In Norse mythology, 12 gods were at a dinner party in Valhalla when Loki, the trickster,
00:02:13.240 showed up uninvited. Loki, joining a party of 12, would make him the 13th guest.
00:02:21.520 Loki persuaded Odin's blind son, Hur, to shoot another one of Odin's sons, Balder,
00:02:28.040 with a mistletoe-tipped arrow. Balder died after being shot by the arrow.
00:02:35.880 Following this event, it was said that the number 13 was unlucky.
00:02:43.240 Some believe that there is truth in an old wives' tale, that a coven of witches met under a full moon and Freyja came down from the mountains to join the coven, making her the 13th in attendance.
00:02:56.120 It is said that since then, traditional covens gather in 13.
00:03:06.660 The ancient code of Hammurabi eerily omitted a 13th law from its list of legal rules.
00:03:13.240 In numerology, the number 13 is the number of beginnings and endings, also of birth and death.
00:03:23.520 In Britain, Friday was known as Hangman's Day, because it was the day that those who were sentenced to death would be hanged at the gallows.
00:03:33.500 There are other sinister and unfortunate events that have fallen on Friday the 13th as well.
00:03:38.740 on september friday the 13th in 1940 germany cruelly bombed buckingham palace in england
00:03:49.260 katie genovese was brutally stabbed to death outside her apartment in new york city
00:03:57.380 on friday the 13th in march 1964
00:04:00.660 On Friday the 13th in November 1970, there was a vicious cyclone in Bangladesh that took
00:04:11.080 the lives of over 300,000 people.
00:04:16.860 In October 1972, on Friday the 13th, a Chilean Air Force plane carrying a rugby team disappeared
00:04:26.000 in the Andes, not to be discovered for over two months.
00:04:30.660 Of the 58 people who boarded the plane, only 16 survived, and they survived by consuming the flesh of those who had passed away.
00:04:44.700 On a Friday the 13th in January of 2012, there was a cruise ship that hit a rock formation on the ocean floor and crashed off the coast of Italy, killing 30 people.
00:04:56.200 director alfred hitchcock known best for his suspense and thriller films
00:05:04.820 was born on the 13th and had he lived he would have turned 100 on friday the 13th
00:05:12.460 hitchcock made his directorial debut with a film called number 13
00:05:16.840 coincidentally or not the film was quote doomed from the start and wasn't successful due to
00:05:24.960 financial troubles. There is fear surrounding Friday the 13th, but there are also people who
00:05:36.020 lean into the spookiness and call the bluff of bad luck. In the late 19th century, a man named
00:05:43.860 Captain William Fowler wanted to get rid of the stigma surrounding the number 13.
00:05:49.200 To do so, he founded an exclusive society called the Thirteen Club.
00:05:54.780 The group had their first dinner on Friday the 13th in January.
00:05:59.860 Dinner on the 13th of the month in the 13th room at the Knickerbocker Cottage.
00:06:05.960 Members would walk beneath a ladder and a banner reading,
00:06:09.740 Morituri te salutamus, Latin for those of us who are about to die salute you,
00:06:15.780 as they made their way to their 13-course dinner.
00:06:18.440 would you attend dear listener 0.99
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00:07:18.440 Thank you.