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Superstition #1253

“I was first led to notice the superstition about crossing a river, from having to attend funerals on the south side, when they would otherwise have been held on the north side. This is losing ground, owing to the frequency of crossing to reach the cemetery, but I had an instance only last spring.”

Baldwinsville, N. Y.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1253.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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