As many people may know there are a lot of superstitions
about death or the coming of it. At least here in Puerto
Rico there is a superstition that when a huge moth is seen
at daytime that death is near, also when you hear dishes
breaking or commotion in the kitchen while nothing is going
on also means that death is near. My mom and I have
experienced both activities in different occasions.
When my mom’s best friend was very sick because of breast
cancer she heard the clattering of the dishes in the
kitchen, at first she got a little freaked out because she
woke up because of it but she fell asleep again. About a
week later she woke up again but hearing her friend’s voice
calling her. The next day her friend died in her house. The
day after she died we went to her house to see her family
and inside the house, in broad daylight was the biggest
moth resting on her kitchen.
My experience was when the death of my great-grandmother
was getting near. She was getting very sick and was losing
control of her body. One night I was watching TV and it was
about 3 AM in the morning. I then heard all that commotion
in the kitchen and I went to see if it were my cats getting
in trouble again. To my surprise everything was in its
place and my cats were nowhere near the kitchen. I went
back watching TV and thought of a relative dying but I
really didn't pay much attention to it. About 3 days before
my great-grandmother’s death I saw in school a huge moth in
broad daylight resting on a wall.
Maybe to some people it might be coincidence, which is what
sometimes I like to think, but they’re also the days when I
believe that its meant to happen, like today.
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