Friday the 13th is thought of as the most unlucky day of the year. Some people take it so seriously they develop a morbid irrational fear called Paraskevidekatriaphobia. There are over 21 million people affected by this in the United States alone. Many people will avoid driving and ships will not sail. Others won't even go to work or eat in restaurants, and you wouldn't dare schedule a wedding on any Friday at all. Everybody knows about Friday the 13th and the story of it being cursed, but some will let it get in the way of their normal everyday functions.

Being superstitious does not mean only avoiding bad luck, but trying to receive good luck as well. To do this many people will try to obtain certain items that supposedly possess luck or may protect them in some way. One of the most popular of these items is the four-leaf clover. As the poem says:

There are thousands of superstitions, some of them crazier than others. It would be impossible to follow all of them, so why bother with any of them? Though there are statistics out there about there being more car accidents on a Friday of the 13th day, that's probably because people think about it so much that they don't pay attention to what they need to be doing. This can happen with any superstition that is taken too seriously. It is true that strong belief in superstitions can have major effects on a person's life, but people create their own bad luck by paying so much attention to them.

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