114 Death
person that comes in the door will die very soon. “There was a dog howled in our yard once, and pa was the first one to come in the door. I know ma felt dreadfully about it, and pa died within a year.”
Open an umbrella in the house, and you run the risk of bringing on yourself extremely bad luck. If you hold it over your head, it is a sign you are soon to die. If you hold it over another person, you put that person in the same danger.
If a dish breaks when no one is near, it is a warning of death in the family soon.
“When I was a young girl, we had half a dozen slender little wineglasses. They were of thin, clear glass, as pretty as anything you ever see. But they all cracked one after the other as they set there on the mantel with nobody near ’em, and that next summer my mother died.”
In the disease called shingles, if the eruption goes way round a person it kills him. Those who recover take a good deal of pride in having it go nearly around.
If you dream of your teeth falling out, that is a sign of death. Even if you dream of the filling falling out that is a bad sign.
