Found this interesting from Wikipedia:
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The actual origin of the superstition, though, appears also to be a tale in Norse mythology. Friday is named for Frigga, the free-spirited goddess of love and fertility. When Norse and Germanic tribes converted to Christianity, Frigga was banished in shame to a mountaintop and labeled a witch. It was believed that every Friday, the spiteful goddess convened a meeting with eleven other witches, plus the devil — a gathering of thirteen — and plotted ill turns of fate for the coming week. For many centuries in Scandinavia, Friday was known as "Witches' Sabbath."
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I don't usually say I am superstitious. On the other hand, there are some things that I like done in a certain way and feel something bad may happen if I do them a different way....but this could go for a lot of things as a form of natural consequence. To me though, this seems like a gut feeling of what to do at a certain time or an instinct. At times this has been proven correct (for me). This is different to superstition though, as it is a type of cause and effect situation, that isn't entirely logical on the surface to others. Superstition is a credulous belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge with the a heavy overtone of an "old wives tale".