Friday the 13th phobia is called friggatriskaidekaphobia. (Frigg/Frigga, the Norse god Friday is named after.) But really, unless you're a Poor Fellow-Soldier of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (a Templar), you probably needn't worry.
From the Wikipedia entry History of the Knights Templar. The below-referred day of arrests is widely believed (correctly or not) to be the origin of the notion that Friday the 13th is unlucky.
At dawn on Friday, October 13, 1307, scores of French Templars were simultaneously arrested by agents of King Philip, later to be tortured in locations such as the tower at Chinon, into admitting heresy in the Order. Over 100 charges were issued against them, the majority of them identical charges that had been earlier issued against the inconvenient Pope Boniface VIII: accusations of denying Christ, spitting and urinating on the cross, and devil worship. The main interrogation of the Templars was under the control of the Inquisitors, a group of experienced interrogators and clergy who circulated around Europe at the beck and call of any European noble. The rules of interrogation said that no blood could be drawn, but this did nothing to stop the torture. One account told of a Templar who had fire applied to the soles of his feet, such that the bones fell out of the skin. Other Templars were suspended upside-down or placed in thumbscrews. Of the 138 Templars (many of them old men) questioned in Paris over the next few years, 105 of them "confessed" to denying Christ during the secret Templar initiations. 103 confessed to an "obscene kiss" being part of the ceremonies, and 123 said they spat on the cross. Throughout the trial there was never any physical evidence of wrongdoing, and no independent witnesses; the only "proof" was obtained through confessions induced by torture. The Templars reached out to the Pope for assistance, and Pope Clement did write letters to King Philip questioning the arrests, but took no further action.
Image: The Burning of the Templars at Paris. Original owned by the British Library.From the Grandes Chroniques de France ou de St. Denis (British Library Royal 20 C. VII, f.48r) (late 14th century)
I enjoy reading the medieval murder mysteries of Michael Jecks; their protagonist is a Keeper of the King's Peace in Devon in the 1300's, Sir Baldwin de Furnshill, a former Knight Templar forced to keep his Templar past a secret following the order's betrayal by the French king and the Pope. Frequently assisted by his friend Bailiff Simon Puttock, Baldwin helps solve murders and expose wrong-doers in the English West Country and beyond.
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