http://www.smashinglists.com/most-common-superstitions/ Amazing, Weird and Unique Sun, 19 May 2013 14:18:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.smashinglists.com/most-common-superstitions/#comment-50405 Sirknight Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:19:33 +0000 http://www.listspress.com/?p=10798#comment-50405 Jacques DeMolay was excuted on March 18, 1314. At dawn on Friday, October 13, 1307, scores of French Templars were simultaneously arrested by agents of King Philip, later to be tortured in locations such as the tower at Chinon, into admitting heresy and other sacrilegious offenses in the Order. That's the connection between the Friday the 13th superstition and the Knights Templar. Jacques DeMolay was excuted on March 18, 1314. At dawn on Friday, October 13, 1307, scores of French Templars were simultaneously arrested by agents of King Philip, later to be tortured in locations such as the tower at Chinon, into admitting heresy and other sacrilegious offenses in the Order. That’s the connection between the Friday the 13th superstition and the Knights Templar.

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