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Just hang on a little longer, you paraskevidekatriaphobics. Surviving your fear of Friday the 13 th today would free you for the rest of the year and until Feb. 13, 2015, though followed by two more Friday the 13ths next year.

This year's solo occurrence is simply pure luck of the calendar. Friday the 13 th popped up twice last year, and three times in 2012, all by July.

So this is one of those years for people with this debilitating fear to breathe a little easier, assuming they avoid any calamity by midnight.

Why Superstitious People Should Stay Home Today

Paraskevidekatriaphobia and Other Unpronounceable Phobias

And even if it's little or no consolation, there's another reason they are luckier than they think. By comparison, triggers for other phobias - real or imagined - are far more abundant. Here are some of the more unusual ones:

(But, first, check out this talking dictionary to help you pronounce paraskevidekatriaphobia.)

Liticaphobia: Fear of lawsuits

Euphobia: Fear of hearing good news

Soceraphobia: Fear of parents-in-law

Deipnophobia: Fear of dining or dinner conversations

Nostophobia: Fear of returning home

Xanthophobia: Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow

Clinophobia: Fear of going to bed

Omphalophobia: Fear of belly buttons

Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth, not to be confused with any legitimate phobia

Aichmophobia: Fear of sharp objects

Sesquipedalophobia: Fear of long words, which has morphed into the contrived hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

And then, of course, there's the phobia of all phobias: Phobophobia, or the fear of being afraid.

See a fuller list HERE.