the same time, one will die
within the year.
_Peabody, Mass., and New Hampshire._

1207. If one try on mourning when not wearing it, he will have occasion
to wear it soon.
_Pennsylvania._

1208. To put on a bonnet or hat of one in mourning is a sign that you
will wear one before the year is out.
_Peabody and Boston, Mass., and Niagara Falls, Ont._

1209. To drive a nail on Sunday is a sign that some one in the family
will die within the year.
_Pigeon Cove, Mass._

1210. Hearing an imaginary rap and opening an outside door lets death in.
_Ferrisburgh, Vt._

1211. The hearing of three raps is a sign that some member of the family
is dead.
_Boston, Mass., and Orange Co., Va._

1212. If members of a family, after long separation, meet for reunion,
some one of the members will die within the year.
_Cambridge, Mass._

1213. Ringing in the ears is a sign of death.
_General._

1214. Ringing in the ears means death before the week ends. Of this
ringing the term "death-bell" is used. It may be said by a country woman:
"Oh! I have heard a death-bell!" or, "What a death-bell in my ear! You
will hear of a death before the week is out." In case of a sudden death,
such a person might say: "I am not surprised; I heard a death-bell on
such a day."
_Northern Ohio._

1215. The term "death-bell" is also a popular one in
_Prince Edward Island._

1216. In some localities the direction of the apparent ringing indicates
the direction from which the news of death will come.

1217. If an empty rocking-chair is seen to sway back and forth when
apparently unoccupied, it is supposed that the chair is held by the
spirit of some deceased member of the family, who has come back to choose
the next to go, and call that person quickly.
_Michigan._

1218. A spot resembling iron-rust on the finger means death.
_Maine._

1219. Beginning on Saturday a garment that cannot be finished means death.
_Ohio._

1220. Deaths do not come singly; but if one of a family dies, a second
death in the same family will occur within a year.
_Cambridge, Mass._

1221. Whoever works on a sick person's dress, he or she will die within
the year.
_Massachusetts._

1222. If some one is sick and a storm comes, it is a sign he will die
during its continuance.
_Virginia._

1223. When a woman who