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SUPERSTITION

HOLD YOUR BREATH WHEN YOU GO PAST CEMETERIES OR SOMEONE, MAYBE YOU,
WILL DIE SOON.

Submitter comment: JULIE NEVER REALLY BELIEVED THIS BUT DID IT AS A CHILD. SHE LEARNED
THIS FROM OTHER CHILDREN PROBABLY IN LEVERING, MICHIGAN AND
ENCOUNTERED IT IN MIDLAND ALSO. I REMEMBER BEING TOLD TO HOLD MY
BREATH AND LOOK THE OTHER WAY WHEN DRIVING PAST A CEMETERY AS A
CHILD BUT NEVER KNEW ANY REASON WHY I WAS DOING IT.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal
BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial

Date learned: CA00001968

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