Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1918 — Superstition Hard to Down. [ARTICLE]

Superstition Hard to Down.

It has recently been discovered that the “thirteen” superstition still exists in New York- At a dinner to which he was Invited one of the guests discovered that 13 persons were present. He was so disturbed over this fact that he left the table. “In tracing the-origin of this superstition” said a traveler, “I found that the Turks have almost eliminated ‘thirteen’ from their vocabulary. The Italians discontinued using the number In making up their lotteries and the thirteenth card in a game they play has on it the symbol of death.”