"His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path."

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Source: Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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