708. If you play at having funerals, one of you will die..................................Mountains

709. If you wear anyone's mourning gown or wrap, there will be a death in your family.

710. It is bad luck to put on or try on a mourning veil, for you will have disaster.

711. Do not put the clothes of a living person on a corpse.

It means death.....................Blue Grass

712. If you give a pin to go on a corpse, you will be the next to die.................Western Kentucky

713. After a death in the family, you should not sing or play any kind of music..............Mountains

714. If you see a star fall, expect a death in the family....................................Blue Grass

715. If you count the stars, you will die. If lying on your back, you count the stars, you will die..................................Southern Kentucky

716. To see a shooting star is a death sign___Mountains

717. If you shiver without apparent cause, death has touched you............North-eastern Kentucky

718. When you shudder involuntarily, it is a sign that someone is walking over your grave (the ground where your grave will be)......Central Kentucky

719. A noise as of someone throwing down wood is a sign of death...........................Blue Grass

720. If large drops of rain fall, there is a death somewhere,

721. A storm precedes or follows the death of a very old person.......................Central Kentucky

722. He who kills a man will die with his boots on, that is, die a violent death..................Blue Grass

723. If a man kills another and dies a natural death, the killing was justified.................Blue Grass

724. If a sick person picks and catches at the bed covering, he will die.

725. It is a sign that a death will occur in the family, if you grieve over the death of a pet.........................................Southern Kentucky

726. The last person whose name a dying man calls will be the next one to die...............Mountains

727. If a person just before death calls the name of someone in the family, that person will be the next in the family to die.

728. Death leaves the door open, that is, one death in the family will be followed by another soon.

729. If a person dies, his picture will fade.....................................North-eastern Kentucky

730. If a person is killed or dies a hard death, his spirit is seen........................Central Kentucky

731. If a man dies hard, he will go to hell............Mountains

732. It brings bad luck to take money off a dead person's eye...............................Mountains

733. If you are ever cut with a razor that has shaved the dead, you will die...................Mountains

734. It brings good luck to wear a bullet which has gone through a dead body.................Mountains

735. If you touch a corpse, you will not be afraid of dead people............................ Mountains

736. If you touch a dead person, you will never dream of him..............................Blue Grass

737. If you touch the body of a dead person, you will never worry about him.

738. No person who touches a dead body will be haunted by its spirit.

739. If you touch a corpse, you will be rid of the fear of death.

740. Sailors will not touch a dead body.

741. Put a lock of hair of a corpse into a hole in a tree to localize the spirit. If you remove the hair, the spirit will haunt you.

742. All portraits in a room where there is a corpse should be turned to the wall, for otherwise a near relative of the deceased will die shortly.

743. You will be unlucky if you see a corpse in a mirror.

Cover the mirror at the time of a death.

744. Stop the clock in the room where a death occurs, to avert bad luck.

745. If a corpse's nose bleeds, it is a sign that the murderer is in the room.

746. If the body of a corpse does not become stiff, expect another death in the family.............Negroes

747. If a corpse gets stiff and then limber, there will be another death in the family.............Negroes

748. If a corpse has a limber neck, this circumstance is the sign of another death in the family soon.

749. The will o' the wisp indicates the proximity of a corpse.

750. Never allow the coffin containing a corpse to pass through any other room than the one in which it has been lying. It may, however, pass through a hall.

751. If a corpse is carried from one house to another, death will occur in the second house within a year.

752. In taking a casket from a house, be sure to take the foot of it out first............Western Kentucky

753. It is unlucky to pass in front of a casket.

754. It brings bad luck to lock the door after a funeral procession has passed out.

755. If a vehicle that is to carry away a corpse stops in front of your house, someone in the family will die.

756. If you see your reflection in the glass of the hearse, you will be the next one to be carried in it.

757. It causes bad luck to point your finger at a funeral procession.

758. It brings bad luck to cross a funeral procession unless you turn your back on it.

759. It brings bad luck to count the vehicles in a funeral procession.

760. If a horse becomes frightened or unruly in a funeral procession, one of the family will die before the year is out.

761. It causes bad luck for a horse to balk in a funeral procession.

762. If a black cat crosses in front of a funeral procession, there will be a death in the family of the corpse within three days.

763. It brings bad luck, if on your way to a funeral you meet a lizard.

764. A thunderstorm during a funeral means that the soul will go down.

765. Very bad luck will follow if a street-car runs into or even grazes a hearse. This occurrence is a sure sign that someone will be injured before the end of the trip.

766. If you point toward a grave-yard, your finger will drop off.

767. It causes bad luck to visit a grave-yard after dark.

768. It brings bad luck for one to go through a cemetery at midnight.

769. If you walk over a grave, your grandmother will die.

770. You will have bad luck if you walk in a funeral vault.............................Blue Grass

771. To meet a red-headed negro in a grave-yard brings good luck.

772. It brings bad luck to leave the grave-yard before the body is buried......................Mountains

773. It causes bad luck to take anything away from a cemetery ..........................Mountains

774. If you step over a grave, you will be the next one buried in that cemetery..............Mountains

775. If one of a family dies and his grave is started but not finished, the number of times it is started but not completed will mark the number of those who will die within that family in one year. .Mountains

776. If you dig a grave and leave it open, or if rain falls into it, there will come bad luck to a member of your family.

777. Dig a grave only on the burial day, because a grave left open over night will cause another death................................Blue Grass Negroes

778. To bury a corpse with the feet toward the sunset is a sign that the soul will be lost at the Resurrection ............................... Mountains

779. Bury the body so that it will face the east.

780. If a turtle-dove flies upward after a death, the soul of the deceased will go to heaven......Mountains

781. If you are buried on a rainy day, you will go to heaven.

782. Thunder after a funeral shows that the spirit of the deceased has gone to heaven.......... Mountains