Superstitions

There is a rumor on social media that Bills fans have been taking part in a strange pre-game ritual that has allowed them to continue the Bills win-streak.

The big debate this week is when you should pick up a penny, or really any coin, off the ground when you are out and about.

For as long as you have been alive (and then even longer than that), Friday the 13th has always been a really big deal — a day that could potentially be full of bad luck if you are not careful. It has led people of Western New York to latch onto a few superstitions.

If you are a friggatriskaidekaphobic or are paraskevidekatriaphobia, you are in for one tough year. Those big words mean that you are afraid of Friday the 13th, and today is just the first of three this year with the others in April and July. How did this all start?

Check out how to survive any and all Friday the 13th's!