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Have you ever grabbed a button on your clothing when passing funeral cars or held your breath when driving by a cemetery? If so, you have participated in age-old superstitions about death. Here are several more superstitions that you may recognize.

• Many people believe that touching or kissing a corpse will prevent them from dreaming or obsessing about that person. It may be because this helps the grieving loved ones realize the person is actually gone.
• Some people stop the clocks in their home when a family member dies. This symbolically indicates the passing of the loved one. When the funeral is over, they restart the clocks as an indication of a new phase in the life of the family and loved ones.
• Ringing bells and shooting guns at a cemetery were once believed to scare away the spirits. Today, however, they are a sign of respect.
• If a lightning bug (firefly) makes its way into your home, someone is going to die soon.
• Another superstition about holding your breath while passing a cemetery states that if you do not do so, you will not be buried when you die.
• Seeing yourself in one of your own dreams mean you will soon die.

Have you heard some of these? Are some of them new to you? On Friday, we’ll have one more installment of these fun and sometimes odd superstitions.