Today’s Superstitious Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
In bygone times, people watched for signs of the Grim Reaper so that they might be ready to meet him when the time came. Some signs were homely warnings, oddities in domestic life that signified the imminence of change. A clock that stopped or chimed between the hours, disturbing the measured march of time, meant Death’s eye was on the household. A guttering candle whose melting wax slid down the shaft in a broad stream – a winding-sheet shape – was another. Bees that swarmed not to fields or orchards in their quest for nectar but down chimneys into houses – so many winged souls, searching for companions – were another. A barnyard cock that crowed not at dawn but in the dead of night, breaking the seemly silence, was still another.
Culled from: Ghosts (Enchanted World)
