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Where does the superstition around Friday 13th come from?

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Where does the superstition around Friday 13th come from?
Dan, Bromley

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**Definitive**
Name: Paul, Loughton
Qualification: History lover - especially the subject of the Knights Templar
Answer: On Friday, October 13, 1307 King Philip IV of France, who was deeply in debt to the Knights Templar, had them all imprisoned or murdered. The Knights were accused of offences including idolatry, heresy, obscene rituals and homosexuality, financial corruption and fraud but many confessed after being tortured.

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