Prepared by Jaleesa DeLavallade
Are you a superstitious person? Do you believe four leaf
clovers or knocking on wood will bring good luck? Will breaking a mirror,
walking under a ladder, or black cats crossing your path bring bad luck? The
list of superstitions can go on and on. Some people are also superstitious
about their dreams at night and they believe that they can be interpreted. If you do a
subject search in Delgado’s catalog for dream interpretation there will be several interesting titles in the results.
Well, for those of you who are superstitious, today is the
third and final Friday the 13th of the year. To make things extra
creepy, each Friday the 13th this year was 13 weeks apart.
It is not exactly known why
Friday the 13th is considered unlucky. Some background information on superstitions in general is available from from the Gale Virtual Reference Library. The "superstitions" entry in The Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained is informative. The About.com
Urban Legends page gives additional background information.
It doesn’t help that the
year is 2012 and some people believe that the world will end according to the Mayan
Calendar.
Good luck today!
Some resources at Delgado:
- Games of Terror : Halloween, Friday the 13th,and the films of the stalker cycle byVera Dika
- 2012 and the end of the world [electronicresource]: the Western roots of the Maya apocalypse by MatthewRestall
- Don't step on the foul line [electronicresource]: sports superstition by George Sullivan
- Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstitionby Wendell Berry
- Satanism and Witchcraft: A Study in Medieval Superstitionby Jules Michelet
- What are dreams? [videorecording] by Charles Coville
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