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We left for my friend Bea’s house in Nahant on Friday, the 13th, listening on the way to a Harvard anthropologist discussing triskaidekaphobia, the ancient superstitious fear of the number 13. Even ...
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Just remember, it's bad luck to be superstitious
Another Friday the 13th came and went a couple of weeks ago much to everyone’s delight. And don’t say you weren’t the least bit apprehensive like the rest of us. It was a relief for many of you to ...
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More than 16 million Britons suffer from a phobia. As we become a nation in fear, the Government announces a multi-million-pound grant to fund research into these mental disorders ...