Friday the 13th unlucky?

What is the true origin of the Friday the 13th being unlucky???

Some believe it’s linked to superstitions that having 13 people at a gathering will result in the death of one member.

The first known reference of Friday the 13th was in 1869 from Henry Sutherland Edwards’ biography “The Life of Rossini”, of Italian composer Gioachino Rossini:
“Rossini was surrounded to the last by admiring and affectionate friends; and if it be true that, like so many other Italians, he regarded Friday as an unlucky day, and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that on Friday, the 13th of November, he died.”

Other say prior to 1907 the superstition did not exist, and credits the W. Thomas Lawson novel "Friday the 13th" is what gave the superstition it’s popularity

And of course "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown used the myth that Friday the 13th is tied to the mass arrest of the Knights Templar by order of King Philip IV of France with Pope Clement V’s blessing, but most many believe that this theory is a recent conception of Pop culture.

It seems that the superstition is a mixture of superstitions relating to Friday and the number 13 both being unlucky. In the end of the day it’s your choice whether Friday the 13th is a day to fear as unlucky.