To open an umbrella in the house is a sign of ill luck. An action of this sort seriously disturbed a friend of the informant, an American girl of good family. “I would never dare to do that,” she said.
Niagara Falls, Ont.
Superstition #1159
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1159.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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