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If you yawn and don't cover your mouth, the devil will steal
your breath away.

Submitter comment: This is a saying popular among young children.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE

Subject headings:

BELIEF -- Devil Demon
BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal
BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness
SPEECH -- Gesture

Date learned: 00-00-1990

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