Get ready for superstition — times three.
Friday is the first of three Friday the 13ths this year.
Each year has at least one Friday the 13th, but there can be as many as three. 2012 was the last year with three Friday the 13ths; the next will be 2026.
Here’s a look at the mysterious date through the eyes of a numerals-obsessed educator who calls himself Professor 13; a British journalist moving her family to a new home on Friday the 13th — while wearing a four-leaf clover; a physics professor who used to tempt fate by breaking mirrors and walking under ladders on Friday the 13th; and a New Jersey woman whose cat rescue operation finds it hardest to locate homes for black cats.
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PROFESSOR 13
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Peyton, a black cat, is held while in her temporary foster home in Lacey Township, N.J., on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. The founder of a cat rescue group that placed Peyton in a temporary home says black cats are the hardest to place for adoption because some people don’t want them, based on superstition. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Peyton, a black cat, is held while in her temporary foster home in Lacey Township, N.J., on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. The founder of a cat rescue group that placed Peyton in a temporary home says black cats are the hardest to place for adoption because some people don’t want them, based on superstition. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Debbie Grondin kisses Peyton, a black cat, in her Lacey Township N.J. home on Thursday Feb. 12, 2015. Grondin is taking care of Peyton until the cat can be adopted, but the founder of a cat rescue facility that placed her with Grondin says black cats are the hardest to place for adoption due to some people’s superstition. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Peyton, a black cat, is held while in her temporary foster home in Lacey Township, N.J., on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. The founder of a cat rescue group that placed Peyton in a temporary home says black cats are the hardest to place for adoption because some people don’t want them, based on superstition. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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Wayne Parry can be reached at http://twitter.com/WayneParryAC
