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Show Sneezing Once Presaged Death. in the ancient world sneezing was ' the subject of much superstition, and was almost always endowed with sinister import. Jewish folklore has it that In the first ages of the worm , snoozing was always a presage of death until the coming of Jacoh, Thai aslule patriarch, anxious i,.st he himself him-self should perish from such nn m-' m-' significant cause, besought the .1-mighty .1-mighty to endow sneezing with more beneficent attributes anil since then il has been lucky to sneeze between noon and midnight. |