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General information: Why Friday the 13th Is Unlucky
Posted by: Nyxks on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 07:59 AM
Why Friday the 13th Is Unlucky
Paraskevidekatriaphobia: Fear of Friday the 13th
From David Emery, for links and references:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/friday_the_13th.htm
I have before me the abstract of a study published in the British Medical Journal in 1993
entitled "Is Friday the 13th Bad for Your Health?" With the aim of mapping "the relation between health,
behaviour, and superstition surrounding Friday 13th in the United Kingdom," its authors compared the
ratio of traffic volume to vehicular accidents on two different days, Friday the 6th and Friday the 13th,
over a period of years.
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Newsletters: Weekly PathWalkers.Net e-Newsletter #91
Posted by: Nyxks on Saturday, April 02, 2005 - 12:59 PM
Weekly PathWalkers.Net e-Newsletter #91
04-04-2005 to 04-10-2005
Greetings and Welcome to the Ninety-first edition of the free PathWalkers.Net
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
WEEKLY SPECIAL - The Ritual of Death and Resurrection
WEEKLY ASTROLOGY REPORT
GENERAL INFORMATION - History of Daylight Saving Time
RECIPE - Asian Chicken, Tomato and Noodle Salad
BOOK REVIEW - Vibrational Medicine (Third Edition)
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WEEKLY SPECIAL - The Ritual of Death and Resurrection
Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922 -
http://www.bartleby.com/196/170.html
This view of totemism throws light on a class of religious rites of which no adequate explanation, so far
as I am aware, has yet been offered. Amongst many savage tribes, especially such as are known to
practice totemism, it is customary for lads at puberty to undergo certain initiatory rites, of which one of
the commonest is a pretence of killing the lad and bringing him to life again. Such rites become
intelligible if we suppose that their substance consists in extracting the youth’s soul in order to transfer it
to his totem.
For the extraction of his soul would naturally be supposed to kill the youth or at least to throw him into a
death-like trance, which the savage hardly distinguishes from death. His recovery would then be
attributed either to the gradual recovery of his system from the violent shock which it had received, or,
more probably, to the infusion into him of fresh life drawn from the totem.
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