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YOU MUST NEVER TELL A PERSON, EVEN IN A JOKING MANNER,
THAT HE WAS DEAD OR THE FUNERAL YOU ATTENDED WAS HIS,
BECAUSE, IN A WEEK, HE WOULD REALLY DIE.

Submitter comment: INFORMANT WAS TOLD OF THIS BY HER MOTHER, TO WHOM
THIS SUPPOSEDLY REALLY HAPPENED--WHEN A MAN ASKED
HER WHY SHE WAS WEARING BLACK, SHE SAID IT WAS FOR
HIS FUNERAL. HE DIED THE NEXT WEEK.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROSEVILLE

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial

Date learned: 02-15-1970

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