1160. If a hoe be carried through a house, some one will die before the year is out. _Mansfield, O._
1161. Carrying through the house a hoe, spade, or axe indicates a death in the family. _Virginia._
1162. Carry an axe or any iron implement through the house, and some one will soon die. _Southwestern Michigan._
1163. Death is foretold by the ringing of a bell that cannot otherwise be accounted for. _Southern Ohio._
1164. When bread, in baking, cracks across the top, it means death. _New Jersey and Ohio._
1165. Cracks on the top of a loaf of bread indicate the death of a friend. _Several localities._
1166. When bright red specks resembling spattered blood appear on linen, it is held to be a token of misfortune, probably of death. _Northern Ohio._
1167. If the candle burns blue, it is token of a death.
1168. To see a coffin in the candle is a token of death. _Boston, Mass._
1169. To see a "winding-sheet" in the candle has the same significance. _Virginia._
1170. Three lamps or candles burned close together mean death. _Virginia._
1171. If a sudden and unaccountable light is seen in a carpenter's shop, it indicates that the carpenter will soon have to make a coffin. _Cape Breton._
1172. If a coffin creaks in a carpenter's shop, another order soon follows. _Newark, N.J., and Virginia._
1173. If the coffin does not settle down smoothly into place in the grave, but has to be raised and lowered again, another in the family will die inside a year. _Stevens Point, Wis._
1174. Change a sick person from one room to another, and he will die. _New Jersey._
1175. If a clock, long motionless, suddenly begins to tick or strike, it is a sign of approaching death or misfortune. _Newark, N.J., Virginia, and North Carolina._
1176. If a corpse remains soft and supple after death, another death in the family will follow. _Trinity Bay, N.F., and Prince Edward Island._
1177. A cow mooing after midnight means death.
1178. To dance on the ground indicates disaster, or death within a year. _Boxford, Mass._
1179. The hearing, in the wall, of the "death-watch," or "death-tick," betokens a death in the house. _General in the United States._
1180. A dish-cloth hung on a door-knob is a sign of death in a family. _Deerfield, Mass._