Does the sight of hearses and funeral cars send a chill up your spine? Have you ever thrown spilled salt over your shoulder to prevent your death? If so, you may be holding on to some death superstitions. Here are some more of those that you may enjoy.
• If you take pictures of a person in their casket, you bring death to someone in your family immediately.
• Leaving the house in a door different than the one you used for entering will bring a horrific death upon you.
• If a mirror breaks and one of the pieces lands on your home’s threshold, the next person to enter over that threshold will soon die.
• If a group of people are standing near a fireplace on New Year’s Eve and one person’s shadow is headless, that person will die that year.
• If you leave your shoes on a table for a long period of time, you will experience sickness or death.
• It is very bad luck for a pregnant woman to attend a funeral.
• If you see a white chicken while on your way to a funeral, you will experience bad luck.
• When you hear thunder immediately after a funeral, the deceased’s soul has reached heaven.
Do you know of any other superstitions related to death and dying? If so, leave us a comment. We’d love to hear more of these!