It is bad to disturb an old grave, as by putting up a tombstone; you will thus herald a death.
Chestertown, Md.

It is bad to disturb an old grave, as by putting up a tombstone; you will thus herald a death.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1265.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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