There once was a woman with a superstitious fear
She dreaded Friday the Thirteenth every year
She stayed at home
The streets she wouldn’t roam
In case bad luck cursed her with its sharp spear
(c) Sanch @ Living my Imperfect Life
Note: Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th
***This has been written for the 2015 A to Z Challenge. My theme is the A to Z of Phobias. Entries are written in the form of a limerick. You can read my other entries here***
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Cheers!!!
Shantala
18 April 2015 at 6:50 amI don’t have much hope of pronouncing this correctly- ever. 😛
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Susan Kane
18 April 2015 at 8:14 amLimericks are entertaining. The ones I remember were mostly dirty.
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Vinodini Iyer
18 April 2015 at 10:42 amOh yeah, Friday the 13th is spooky to a lot of us!
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Obsessivemom
18 April 2015 at 11:59 amNow this one I can believe but Lord my God how on earth do we pronounce it?
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simple girl
18 April 2015 at 1:19 pmI am enjoying your this phobia series… 🙂
Prasanna
18 April 2015 at 3:18 pmI have had a bad experience once on Firday the 13th and after that I have been a little cautious. But I didn’t know there was a fear related to that 🙂
Leo
18 April 2015 at 3:26 pmI agree with Shantala. no hope of pronouncing it. But I know about this fear. I have heard of it.
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Romi
18 April 2015 at 3:31 pmI didn’t know there was a word for it.
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Romi
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Sulekkha
18 April 2015 at 3:56 pmA tongue twister. I would have thought it would be something like Unluckyfridayphobia 😉
Parul
18 April 2015 at 4:23 pmSo I will be honest! I could not even read the word aloud..Almost thought it’s Sanskrit or may be Greek 😀 How awesome!
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Rhonda Albom
18 April 2015 at 9:22 pmStaying home on Friday the 13th is always a good plan. 🙂
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David Macaulay
18 April 2015 at 9:41 pmWow – that is a specific word. Good to stumble on your blog…
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Alok Singhal
18 April 2015 at 10:15 pmSeems to be the longest word ever read in my life, is it really formally recognized?
Geets
18 April 2015 at 11:07 pmIt took my three times to pronounce the word correctly.. You know how to create a small story with just a few words Sanch..
Cheers
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Jolie du Pre
18 April 2015 at 11:10 pmExcellent flash fiction, even though I can’t pronounce the title! LOL!
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Vinitha
19 April 2015 at 1:19 amWhat a difficult fear is this! Loved your little Limerick. 🙂
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Eli
19 April 2015 at 2:04 amThat’s a scary fobia – not so fond of that date anyway:-)
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elly stornebrink
19 April 2015 at 12:33 pmWhat a LONG name for such a phobia! I think it’s more scary to pronounced that – how do you anyway?! – than Friday the 13th itself. 😉 13 is actually a spiritual number; however, if memory serves me correctly, something changed its viewpoint …think it was religion… 🙂 <3
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Shailaja
19 April 2015 at 4:06 pmI have always felt sorry for Friday the 13th. Seems like a whole lot of unnecessary pressure on that poor day 😉
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Rajlakshmi
19 April 2015 at 6:40 pmthat word is quite a mouthful 😀 I love watching horror flicks on any superstitious days.
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Amrit Sinha
19 April 2015 at 7:55 pmI loved the limerick … well done 😀
G Angela
19 April 2015 at 11:48 pmOMG.. I struggled to pronounce this phobia.. never heard of this phobia, and thanks for enlightening..
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Shilpa Garg
20 April 2015 at 5:14 pmI have heard of this phobia but never heard of the name and it is so difficult to pronounce! Whoever coined that!!
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Kaddu
22 April 2015 at 9:50 pmYeah, quite a few people are scared of Friday the 13th. It’s good that I’m not. It would have been difficult telling someone I have this phobia when I can’t even pronounce it!
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Eloquent Mind
24 April 2015 at 7:55 amWow ! That is one long name for a phobia. I was earlier superstitious too of the same fear but not any more…. 🙂
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