If, when any one dies, you put the coffin in any other room than the one the corpse is in, some other member of the family will die within a year.
Western Massachusetts.

If, when any one dies, you put the coffin in any other room than the one the corpse is in, some other member of the family will die within a year.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1246.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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