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By ROBERT C. RADCLIFFE
’National Orographic News
Be sure to tip your hat to a lop-eared dog Friday, but don’t stir your coffee with a knife.
Those are at least two ways of staying out of trouble, according to triskaidekaphobes, people who believe their unlucky number comes up on Friday the 13th.
For them, any 13 is bad and should be faced with suspicion. Friggaphobiacs feel the same way about Friday, and when Friday the 13th looms on the calendar, it’s a day of double whammy.
Through the centuries when these unlucky days came along, the superstitious applied all kinds of protections against being hexed by Lady Luck, the National Geographic Society says.
Many had tongue in cheek as they crossed their fingers. But believers swear by things to do and don’t for Friday the 13th.
Wink, Bat No Banana*
Leave your hat on riding in elevators, wink at white horses, let any hay wagons you come across have the right of way, whistle passing all graveyards.
At the same time, don’t eat bananas with catsup, don't pick up safety pins on the street, don't take a rake through the living room and don't open an umbrella indoors.
Parents should bite off fingernails of babies born on this date to save the infants
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