Triskaidékaphobie
The triskaidékaphobie (of the old Greek τρεισκαίδεκα treiskaídeka , “thirteen” and φόϐος phóbos , “fear”) is the Phobie number Thirteen. She is often regarded as a Superstition.
She is connected to the fact that there were thirteen people around the table of the last meal of Jesus Christ, but its origin more probably goes back to the Moyen-âge.
The triskaidékaphobie has perhaps also affected the Viking S, the god Loki being the thirteenth god of their mythology. It was taken again later by the Christians, indicating Satan like thirteenth the angel.
At certain places, one does not count a 13:
Indeed, certain buildings do not have a thirteenth stage, passing from the twelfth to the fourteenth or using 12a or 12b in the place of 13 .
Certain large hotels pass directly from the room number 12 to the room number 14 not to have indelicacy to put at it a customer who could be superstitious. It is the same for the cinemas which do not have either a room number 13. On the level of certain airline companies (whose Air France), figure 13 is not used for the classification of the seats in cabin.
The type-setter Arnold Schönberg suffered from this phobia. Coincidentally, it was born and died one thirteen of the month.
The magazine Spirou does not have a page 13, replaced by the 12bis page, in order to turn in derision the triskaidékaphobie.
Many competitions (for example the Formula 1) allots number 13 to no conceived.
One meets in Japan a similar phobia concerning the number 4, of which one of the readings ( shi ) is a Homonymie death.
The word Triskaidékaphobie is a composition éthymologiquement correct but rather arbitrary: one can in the same way call Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobie the fear of the Nombre of the animal (666), but in the anglophone countries, the word is rather employed like Virelangue that for really indicating the concept.
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