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JAMAICAN SUPERSTITIONS

IF YOU SEE A CHICKEN FLY UP SUDDENLY AND THEN DROP
DOWN DEAD IMMEDIATELY, IT MEANS SOMEONE HAS JUST DIED.
(OR WOULD HAVE DIED).
WHEN A DOG HOWLS AT NIGHT, IT MEANS A DEATH OF SOMEONE.
IF A PERSON DIES, REMOVE ALL HIS CLOTHES FROM THE ROOM
THAT HE DIED IN OR ELSE HE WILL RETURN EVERY NIGHT
TO TRY THEM ON.

Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM A LADY FRIEND FROM JAMAICA.

Where learned: NEW YORK ; JAMAICA

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial

Date learned: 01-01-1964

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