11. Learn sign language.
Triskaidekaphobia
Fear of the number 13 (Friday the 13th)
There is a common myth that the earliest reference to thirteen being unlucky or evil is from the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, where the thirteenth law is omitted.
Some Christian traditions have it that at the Last Supper, Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th to sit at the table. This is perhaps related to the superstition that if thirteen people gather, one of them will die in the following year. When the uninvited norns showed up at his birthday celebration—thus increasing the number of guests from ten to thirteen— the norns cursed the infant by magically binding his lifespan to that of a mystic candle they presented to him.
The creepiest part is that I dreamt of this word just now. Is it a bad omen? =/
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