A dog scratching the floor of a house is digging his master’s grave. He will soon die.
If a hearse passes a person twice during the same funeral, he will be its next occupant.
Never cross the arms over the head; your mother or nearest relation will die.
Never sweep the crumbs from a table with a paper; it will bring disgrace to your family.
In former years, when the milk man brought his cows along to town and milked them before your door, there was a curious belief that if a cow bawled in front of a house where a sick person lay, that person would die.
If a mass is not said for the repose of a soul, the newly dead will come at night and pull the feet or carry off the blanket of the nearest relation.
A black moth flying at night means that there will be a death in the house.
Should an eyelash fall, you will receive a visit from a long forgotten friend.
If an owl hoots as it flies over a house, somebody in that house will die.
That there is “something” in witchcraft it is impossible to deny. The fear and reverence in which the brujos are held is far more powerful than their fear of the law, as has been shown in several recent criminal cases.