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._ 1181. To knock on a door and receive no answer is a sign of death. _Virginia and Englewood, Ill._ 1182. The last name a dying person calls is that of the next to follow. _New Hampshire._ 1183. Sometimes the dying call for an absent one, as if in trouble. This is a sign that that person will have some great trouble in after life. _New York._ 1184. Death takes place at ebb tide. _New England Coast._ 1185. The person on whom the eyes of a dying person last rest will be the first to die. _Boston, Mass._ 1186. It is a sign of death to see a flower blossoming out of season, as, for example, a rose in the fall. This has proved a true omen in several cases, according to the experience of a lady who believes in these signs. In consequence of this belief, when she has such a a flower, she will pick it off the stem and throw it away, without mentioning the incident to any one. _Niagara Falls, Ont._ 1187. It is a sign of death to see a tree blossoming in the fall. _Orange Co., Va._ 1188. If a garment is cut out on Friday, the person for whom it is made will not live unless it is finished on the same day. _Southern Indiana._ 1189. If you begin a quilt on Friday, you will never live to finish it. _Maine._ An act of this sort gave great distress to a domestic servant, who, until after the completion of the quilt, daily expected disaster. This woman came from French Canada. 1190. If a doctor is called on Friday, the patient will surely die. _Cambridge, Mass._ 1191. If a hearse is drawn by two white horses, death in the neighborhood will occur within a month. _Central Maine._ 1192. If anyone comes to a funeral after the procession starts, another death will occur in the same house. _Ohio._ 1193. At a funeral the first person who turns away from the grave will have the next death in his family. _Trinity Bay, N.F._ 1194. If one goes to a funeral with the intention of following to the grave but does not do so, a death soon follows in his family. _Virginia._