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ROCKING AN EMPTY ROCKING CHAIR MEANS A DEATH WILL FOLLOW.
Submitter comment:
THIS WAS TAUGHT TO HER BY HER MOTHER WHO INSISTED THAT THE PRACTICE
BE REFRAINED FROM.
UNNATURAL
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Ortonville
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Magic of Speech, Sign, Color BELIEF -- Number Emptiness, nothingness, zero |
Date learned: 00001930S CA. ; 11-00-1987