3859. Almost every community has a house which the credulous believe to be haunted.

3860. If a picture falls off the wall, the house is haunted....................Central Kentucky Negroes

3861. If a snake runs across your foot in front of a house which you are about to enter, the house is haunted .......................North-eastern Kentucky

3862. If a door closes or moves without any wind or other visible cause, the house is haunted.....................................North-eastern Kentucky

3863. If you bury anything alive, it will haunt you....................................... Mountains

3864. If a murder or suicide is committed in a house and a drop of blood falls on the floor, the house will be haunted and the blood can never be washed out or painted over.

3865. If you have killed a person and are troubled over the fact, go to his grave at midnight, face the north, step forward over the grave and then backward over it. You will be troubled no more..............................Central Kentucky Negroes

3866. A seventh son is able to see ghosts or spirits..................................Louisville colored

3867. One child in each family is able to raise knocking spirits............................. Mountains

3868. There is a legend in Kentucky that the shades of departed Indians return from the Happy Hunting Ground annually in the dark of the moon in October and silently tread again the old trails.

3869. "Happen," a spirit of the other world, knocks on the wall when one in the house is sure to die........................................Blue Grass

3870. A deaf and dumb supper is prepared as follows.

While preparing this supper the participants must neither speak or be spoken to by any one. All the work must be done backwards, that is, they walk backwards and hold their hands behind them while doing the work. When all is ready for eating, some supernatural sign appears to them. Sometimes it is two men carrying a corpse; or a large white dog may appear. Whatever it may be, it is always very alarming in appearance.

3871. A much feared animal, called the dog-eater, occasionally appears in folk superstition. He is thought to devour dogs and even other animals. He also terrorizes people.

3872. Soldiers at the front usually have a "call" or "vision" before death................Blue Grass

3873. Ghosts are the spirits of people who died and were not satisfied........................Blue Grass

3874. A sudden warm breeze means the passing of a ghost ...............................Negroes

3875. If one asks a ghost what it desires, it will tell him..................................Blue Grass

3876. Negroes wear matches in their hair to keep evil spirits away..........................Negroes

3877. You can frighten evil spirits away by burning rubber ...............................Mountains

3878. To keep away ghosts, put a feather duster in the doorway....................Western Kentucky

3879. If a spirit or a ghost pursues you, stop in the middle of a stream and make the sign of the cross with your fingers........................Mountains

3880. To frighten ghosts away when you meet them in a lonely lane on a dark night, cross the left thumb over the index finger, draw a long breath and exclaim in a sepulchral voice: "Skip-i-to!" No ghost can withstand this process, especially if the words are repeated...........Western Kentucky

3881. If one shoots at a ghost with a silver bullet, he will kill it.............................Blue Grass

3882. If you think you hear your name called, you will probably die if you answer before you are sure; for it may be that the ghosts are calling your spirit... ..................................Blue Grass