It’s Friday the 13th—a day of bad luck, if you are superstitious person, and a great occasion to look at the origin of the word superstition. Very “superstitious” The word superstition is first found in an important, early 13th-century monastic manuscript, the Ancrene Riwle, when it characterized “excess.” By the late 1300s, as evidenced in … Continue reading “Superstition”: an unlucky etymology?