After breakfast I wanted to talk about the dead man and guess out how he come to be killed, but Jim didn’t want to. He said it would fetch bad luck; and besides, he said, he might come and ha’nt us; he said a man that warn’t buried was more likely to go a-ha’nting around than one that was planted and comfortable.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 10. Huck wanted to talk about the dead man, but a superstitious Jim avoided the subject saying it would bring bad luck and the man could haunt them.