grasswire

I guess you didn’t think that there were no numbers in Macerata :) The number I’ll remember most will probably be thirteen because I learned in Macerata why it is considered to be unlucky number. According to a certain book on Italy (under section superstitions), it said that the number equals the apostles plus Jesus – with a traitor among them, i.e. the bad luck and the rule of not sitting thirteen people at the same table. Mind you, the superstition section of the book was mere one page while insults in the phrases section took almost four pages, neatly arranged according to references to body parts, animals etc.