The origin of this superstition is mainly unknown. You would be hard pressed to find a building with a 13 th floor in North America.

13 – The hysteria surrounding unlucky 13 in Western culture has become so commonplace that an actual sickness called triskaidekaphobia the fear of the number 13.

Unlucky numbers depend on someone’s belief or experience with that particular number. The numbers which exert a bad impact on one’s life are called unlucky numbers. But in cultures in Asia, the pronunciation of 666 sounds very much like the phrase, “things going smoothly,” and it is considered to be very lucky.

666 might actually be the most avoided number in Western culture, followed closely by the number 13.

As everyone knows, according to the Christian bible, 666 is the number of the beast and is synonymous with Satan. It is both extremely bad luck in Western culture but very good luck in many Asian cultures.

666 Six hundred and sixty-six is an interesting number.

The sum of every digit either in group, is number 9.

Nine is considered a good number in Chinese culture because it sounds the same as the word “long-lasting”.

Number 8 is lucky in Chinese culture because the Chinese word for “eight” sounds like the word for “wealth”.

In many far eastern cultures, 8 is considered a lucky number to the point of obsession.

There are seven natural colors present in light, seven skies, Seven Seas, seven days in a week. In music there are seven different notes in a harmonic octave. There were seven wonders of the ancient world, amazing man-made structures of which only one survives today – the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

There are some fascinating creatures like starfish that have five-fold symmetry, that means you can rotate them five times and they will still look the same. Humans have five senses (sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing) and five fingers on each hand. Five is an interesting number because it occurs a lot in nature.Number 8 is lucky in Chinese culture because the Chinese word for “eight” sounds like the word for “wealth”.The numbers which have relatively good impact on one’s life is said to be the lucky numbers (with respect to the belief of that person). There are many different ways in which a number can be special. Some people choose their lucky number because it is the shirt number of their favorite sports player.because it happens to relate to something else that people think is important.

Why a particular number is thought as lucky?Ī particular number is thought to be lucky:

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