Part 44 (1/2)

_Webster City, Iowa._

Or bad luck (_Virginia_); disappointment (_New Jersey_).

1225. If three drops of blood fall from your nose, one of your family is dead.

_Labrador._

1226. If you sneeze on Sunday morning before breakfast, you will hear of the death of some person you know before the next Sat.u.r.day night.

_Northern Vermont._

1227. If you sneeze at table with the mouth full, an acquaintance will die soon.

_Virginia and Alabama._

1228. When sowing grain, if a strip of land is missed there will be a death inside of a year.

_Ohio and Maryland._

1229. When you s.h.i.+ver, it means that some one is walking over the place where your grave is to be.

_General in the United States._

1230. If sparks are left (unintentionally) in the ashes over night, it is a sign of death.

_c.u.mberland, Md._

1231. If sparks of fire fly out of an opened stove door, it is a sign of death.

_Trinity Bay, N.F._

1232. If any one in the town lies dead over Sunday, there will be another death before the end of the week.

_Bedford, Ma.s.s._

1233. Three horses of the same color indicate death, but this sign is not very noticeable in a thickly settled community.

_Baldwinsville, N.Y._

1234. Three chairs placed accidentally in a row mean death.

_Ohio._

1235. If there is a death there will be three deaths in the family within a short time.

_New York._

1236. To break the spell of thirteen at table, all should rise together, otherwise the first up (or, as some say, the last down) dies inside a twelvemonth.

_New England._

1237. If thirteen sit at table, the one who rises first will not live through the year.

_Somerville, Ma.s.s., Newark, N.Y., and Mifflintown, Pa._

1238. If thirteen sit at table, the last one who sits down will not die that year.

_Brookline, Ma.s.s._

1239. If window-shades fall down without being molested, it is a sign of death.

_Cape Breton._