Friday the 13th one occurrence each. A Friday the 13th occurs during any month that begins on a Sunday. The fear of the number 13 has been given a scientific name: "triskaidekaphobia"; and on analogy to this the fear of Friday the 13th is called "paraskevidekatriaphobia", from the Greek words "Paraskeví" (Παρασκευή, meaning "Friday"), and "dekatreís" (δεκατρείς, meaning "thirteen"). The superstition surrounding this day may have arisen in the Middle Ages, "originating from the story of Jesus' last supper and crucifixion" in which there were 13 individuals present in the Upper Room on the 13th of Nisan Maundy Thursday, the night before his
Friday the 13th (1980 film) in the context of queer studies in a 2017 essay, noting the villain, Mrs. Voorhees, as a reverse of the Norman Bates character in "Psycho": "The effect of her being the killer is queerly destabilizing. For one, we cannot underestimate the import of having a woman be the architect and cause of such gruesomely creative murders. It's a radical departure from other slasher flicks, like "Halloween", which was released a few years before, where the killer is almost always male and perversely hellbent on punishing sexually-active teenagers." Friday the 13th (1980 film) Friday the 13th is a 1980 American slasher