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SPIRIT AND HORSES AT A WEDDING, 1896
Volume 5, entries 13222. Source context: "CHANNEL DE WORLD". Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 13222
A true sign that someone is going to die in their family soon, either [that of] the bride or bridegroom: This is at a wedding. They're leaving home to get the train, going away on a honey- moon. And the horses prance and keep prancing forwards then back. I knew it to happen in my home. A young man home from New York, he married a girl at my home near Elizabeth City [N. C.], and when they were leaving the church, when the mother came on out, she was the last, something sound like a tray of glasses smashed down in the church. She looked back and didn't see anything, and came on out and said, "My, my, what a terrible crash. My, I didn't know there were any glasses in the church." She said to one of her servants, "Sarah, what's that mean?" Sarah said, "That's the sign of death, Miss Jane." And she said, "Now you watch it. Someone is going out of the family soon." It proved to be true. So when they drove off, they had a hard time to get the horses to go. They kept tramping and backing to and fro, to and fro. They just kept that going for about ten or fifteen minutes. When they did go they went all in a rush. In three weeks time this young woman was called to come back home and visit her mother. Her mother was sick for one month and then passed away. She stayed a week and went on back home. In no time there was a telegram the daugh- ter was gone. She only lived to be a married woman about one year. That was about forty years ago [1896] in a family I knew well. [This belief of course is not hoodoo but it happens to be spirit lore upon which hoodoo is built.] [Informant No.6 in New York City by Ediphone, she coming from near Elizabeth City, N. Car.]