If one goes to a funeral with the intention of following to the grave but does not do so, a death soon follows in his family.
Virginia.

If one goes to a funeral with the intention of following to the grave but does not do so, a death soon follows in his family.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1194.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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