Thirteen as unlucky number — Mythoi

Motif

Thirteen as unlucky number.

Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · Nature of luck and fate. · Changing of luck or fate. · view the constellation · filed as N135.1

Cited in the index

general **Böklen Die "unglückezahl" Dreizehn (Leipzig, 1913)
general Hdwb. d. Abergl. s. v. "Zahlen" B 13
general *Fb "tretten"
general **Kyriakiodos To Dysoionon tou Arithmou 13 (Athens, 1953).

Within the index

Filed under Objects effect change of luck.

Filed beside it

Possession of money brings luck. Nothing escapes a mouse as long as she has in her hole a purse of money The luck-bringing shirt. The king is to become lucky when he puts on the shirt of a lucky man. The only man who says that he is lucky has no shirt Lucky marks on body

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