May 13th is when the Ancient Roman Feast of the Lemures was celebrated and conducted, (the feast also took place on the 9th and 11th of May). The Lemuralia or Lemuria was a feast in the religion of ancient Rome during which rites were performed to exorcise the malevolent and fearful ghosts of the dead from their homes.
On Friday, May 13, 1373, Julian of Norwich had visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love.
Nandor Fodor, born on May 13, 1895 was a British and American parapsychologist, psychologist, author and journalist of Hungarian descent, and one of the leading authorities on Poltergeists, haunting and all kinds of other paranormal phenomena. Fodor, was for a time an associate of Sigmund Freud, and wrote on subjects like prenatal development and dream interpretation, but is credited mostly for his magnum opus, Encyclopædia of Psychic Science, first published in 1934. (He died on May 17, 1964.)
May 13th is the day when the Catholic Church honours the first apparition of Our Lady of Fatima to the three children of Fatima, Portugal – May 13, 1917.
On May 13, 1931, James Warren "Jim" Jones, founder and cult leader of the Peoples Temple was born. Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple is best known for the mass murder/mass suicides of more than 900 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana which took place on November 18, 1978. Jones died along with the others on that day.
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