Chapter 62 fear of thirteen

A person was invited to another table because he became thirteen people at the same table. As a result, he got rid of the bad luck. The German composer Wagner was tortured by the number thirteen throughout his life.His name was Richard Wagner, which happened to contain thirteen letters. He was born in 1813 and died on February 13, 1883.When he was thirteen, his mother and sisters went to Prague, Czech Republic, leaving him to go to school alone.When he was twenty-six years old (a multiple of thirteen), disaster struck again. He owed a huge debt and had to flee to Paris to avoid the debt. Only thirteen of Wagner's operas remain intact, and he tore up most of the manuscript of his first opera, which premiered on February 13, 1838.As for another of his operas, Tannhauser, the total score was completed on April 13, 1845, and the premiere received bad reviews. On March 13, 1861, the revised script was released again. Staged in Paris, it was met with worse criticism.

Although many people taboo the number thirteen, there are unbelieving thirteen clubs in New York and London. The number of members, membership fees, party dates and number of people in these clubs are deliberately arranged as thirteen or multiples of thirteen.Furness, a member of the Thirteen Club in London, once mentioned in a humorous magazine the adventures of a Norwegian friend of his: On March 20, 1873, he took the Atlantis steamer from Liverpool to New York. On the thirteenth day of departure, the ship ran aground near Halifax. Among nearly a thousand passengers, Five hundred and eighty people were killed.On the first day after leaving Liverpool, the ladies at his table found that there happened to be thirteen people at their table. They asked him to sit at another table and asked him if he believed that thirteen was unlucky.He said he didn't believe it, but he still sat at another table according to their wishes.As a result, the tablemates at the time believed that the thirteen represents unlucky female guests were all killed, and only he, who didn't believe it, was rescued by chance.

What does thirteen represent?If you believe it is bad luck, you can find Wagner's story, if you don't believe it, you will see the story told by Furness.