When a couple are married and are driving off, if old shoes are thrown after them for good luck, and one of the shoes lodges on the coach or carriage, it is a sign that one of the party will die before the year is out.
Waltham, Mass.
Superstition #358
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 358.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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