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Friday the 13th: Why is it considered unlucky?

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd talks with Phil Stevens, a retired associate professor of anthropology at SUNY Buffalo and author of “Anthropology of Magic and Witchcraft: Inherently Human,” about why we have so many superstitions around Friday the 13th.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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