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IF IT RAINS WHEN YOU DIE, IT MEANS YOUR SOUL IS BEING WASHED
PURE AND CLEAN.

Submitter comment: THIS WAS BELIEVED BY INFORMANT'S MOTHER. THE INFORMANT
HEARD THIS SAID WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG, BUT DOES NOT BELIEVE
IN THE TRUTH OF THE STATEMENT NOW. (1920S).

Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; PITTSBURGH

Subject headings:

BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew
BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial

Date learned: 00001920S ; 10-02-1971

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