Natchez &8212; Today is Colton Farmer&8217;s lucky day.

Born on Friday the 13th, the Adams County Christian School fifth-grader turns 11 today.

While many people see the date as a bad omen, legend holds that babies born on Friday the 13th lead lucky lives.

Colton&8217;s father believes that might be true.

&8220;I think he&8217;s always been pretty lucky,&8221; Billy Ray Farmer said. &8220;He&8217;s been on a couple of city championship teams, he&8217;s been a quarterback of his football team.&8221;

And Colton&8217;s great-grandmother thought he would be lucky, too.

&8220;She always told me a full-moon baby or a Friday the 13th baby would be lucky,&8221; Colton&8217;s mother Darla Farmer said. &8220;If Mama Farmer said it, everyone knew it was true.&8221;

Mama Farmer predicted Colton&8217;s sister Brittany, now 15, would be a full-moon baby &8212; and she was.

The origins of the Friday the 13th superstition are somewhat vague, but it&8217;s likely the fear of Friday and the fear of the number 13 converged somewhere along the way.

Some theories link the legend that Friday is a bad day to events in Christian tradition, such as Christ&8217;s crucifixion. Theorists also note there were 13 people at the Last Supper.

Snopes.com, a Web site cataloging urban legends, has found the earliest references to Friday the 13th as a bad omen in the early 20th century.

Darla Farmer laughed when told one Web site holds that children born on Friday the 13th should carry a rabbit&8217;s foot killed at midnight by a cross-eyed farmer.

&8220;Well, we&8217;re Farmers,&8221; she said. &8220;But I don&8217;t think we&8217;ve ever killed a rabbit.&8221;

Colton&8217;s birthday plans include eating crawfish at Berry&8217;s Seafood tonight. But don&8217;t expect him to eat 13 crawfish.

&8220;More like 13 pounds,&8221; his mother said.