Deaths do not come singly; but if one of a family dies, a second death in the same family will occur within a year.
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Deaths do not come singly; but if one of a family dies, a second death in the same family will occur within a year.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1220.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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