01-23-2004, 04:13 PM
Woohoo! I love knowing this, especially because there's a good reason I know.
The fear of the number 13 comes from the fear of Friday the 13th (not the movie, the actual date), and that comes from a curse Jacques DeMolay put on the King of France. The Knights Templar watched over certain areas during the Crusades and gathered a lot of money and power over time, and became somewhat ritualistic and a very close fraternity of brothers. On one single day, the king ordered that every knight templar in France be arrested and taken in, and this is where the exact dates get tricky for me to remember. I think I recalled that that single day was Friday the 13th, in October. Either way, Jacques DeMolay (the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar) and Guy of Auvergne were burned at the stake, but as he was, DeMolay put a curse on the king and pope (the two in particular who persecuted him and his brothers). Pope Clement died within the year, King Philip soon after that, along with his three brothers.
The reason I know this is because I am a member of a fraternity called DeMolay, a branch of the Freemasons. It's basically like junior Freemasons, it's for people 13-21 years old. However we have our own rituals and our own sets of precepts, so it's quite a bit different, just loosely based on the Freemasons. One of the rituals involves the reinactment of the trial of Jacques DeMolay... the reason he's the namesake of the group is because even after being tortured and broken, he wouldn't give up his loyalty and tell them where the other templars and money were. And thus you have the corny notion of brotherhood. I'm inactive in DeMolay because the organization is sort of falling apart (at least in SoCal) and took too much of my time.
Here's a link I just found that means I'm not completely insane and made this up in my head.
http://astrology.about.combrary/weekly/...friday+the+13th
The fear of the number 13 comes from the fear of Friday the 13th (not the movie, the actual date), and that comes from a curse Jacques DeMolay put on the King of France. The Knights Templar watched over certain areas during the Crusades and gathered a lot of money and power over time, and became somewhat ritualistic and a very close fraternity of brothers. On one single day, the king ordered that every knight templar in France be arrested and taken in, and this is where the exact dates get tricky for me to remember. I think I recalled that that single day was Friday the 13th, in October. Either way, Jacques DeMolay (the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar) and Guy of Auvergne were burned at the stake, but as he was, DeMolay put a curse on the king and pope (the two in particular who persecuted him and his brothers). Pope Clement died within the year, King Philip soon after that, along with his three brothers.
The reason I know this is because I am a member of a fraternity called DeMolay, a branch of the Freemasons. It's basically like junior Freemasons, it's for people 13-21 years old. However we have our own rituals and our own sets of precepts, so it's quite a bit different, just loosely based on the Freemasons. One of the rituals involves the reinactment of the trial of Jacques DeMolay... the reason he's the namesake of the group is because even after being tortured and broken, he wouldn't give up his loyalty and tell them where the other templars and money were. And thus you have the corny notion of brotherhood. I'm inactive in DeMolay because the organization is sort of falling apart (at least in SoCal) and took too much of my time.
Here's a link I just found that means I'm not completely insane and made this up in my head.
http://astrology.about.combrary/weekly/...friday+the+13th