what are some superstitions from the Southern USA?
Death and superstition: the rural South Death and burial in remote Southern locales embodied a brace of bizarre traditions and superstitions that often persist to this day. A solemn funeral procession slowly winds its way up a dry creek bed deep in the hills of Kentucky. Six overall-clad men carry a homemade coffin on their brawny shoulders. Behind is a grieving widow and children, followed by friends and family. There are no sleek black hearses here, no somber men in dark suits orchestrating every move. The body inside the coffin is probably not even embalmed. But this is how folks in Appalachia have buried their dead for hundreds of years. Bearing the coffin to the family cemetery on top of the mountain is the last act in a string of traditions, sometimes still followed in the mountains. Traditions in Appalachia and the South are sometimes bound in superstition. The moment that a person dies, a whole series of customs shift into gear to speed the departed’s trip to the hereafter, and
