It means basically "I've got a feeling something bad will happen." Someone's walking where I'll be when I'll die, which gives me the supernatural ability to sense impending misfortune. It implies an almost delightfully mystical worldview that collapses the separation between life and death and the present and the future. Then there's the it's an anglo saying, but the yankee version "a goose is walking over my grave." which ads an extra level of folksy.
Oh, and you say it when you get a sudden shiver that lets you know something bad will happen specifically. It's the extra level of specificity that really does it for me.
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It means basically "I've got a feeling something bad will happen." Someone's walking where I'll be when I'll die, which gives me the supernatural ability to sense impending misfortune. It implies an almost delightfully mystical worldview that collapses the separation between life and death and the present and the future. Then there's the it's an anglo saying, but the yankee version "a goose is walking over my grave." which ads an extra level of folksy.
Oh, and you say it when you get a sudden shiver that lets you know something bad will happen specifically. It's the extra level of specificity that really does it for me.
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