There was a superstition among old people who had never been much abroad, in the town where I was born (Stratham, N. H.), that if they were photographed they were likely to die soon after, and many rather objected on that account.
Stratham, N. H.
Superstition #1415
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1415.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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