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Article: SUPERSTITIONS: ; Feeling unlucky today?; It's Friday the 13th
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- Charleston Gazette
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- November 13, 2009
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CHICAGO - Henry Ford would have hated 2009, and not just because
it's been a tough year to sell cars.
Ford, as the story goes, refused to do business on Friday the
13th, and this week marks the third time this year that the 13th
will fall on a Friday - the most times it can happen in one year.
It's a day when people rearrange travel plans, delay surgery or
just pull up the covers and stay in bed until Friday the 13th turns
into Saturday the 14th, convinced that even stepping out of the
house would cause bad luck to find them the way an anvil finds the
head of Wile E. Coyote.
"They're afraid something tragic or ominous would happen," said
Donald Dossey, a North Carolina behavioral scientist ...