Now there’s a word for you. And it’s a real one! What does it mean? Well, it’s the fear of the number 666 and a town in the US state of Louisiana has won a 40-year campaign to have its telephone prefix changed from the number made infamous in the Book of Revelation (which is the last book in the Bible, if you didn’t already know—which is, of course, unlikely). The number 666 has long been associated by Christians with the Devil, a figure Pagans will readily tell you they don’t believe in at all and was appropriated from Persia. [...]
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