It is bad luck to meet a corpse. One may follow it, but never meet it. A colored person will turn square about on seeing a funeral procession approaching.
Talladega, Ala., and Virginia.
Superstition #1260
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1260.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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