3. I've read something similar in at least a couple of the books shelved under Woo-woo, Pagan upstairs, but my cat says I'm not allowed to climb out from under him and the quilt to go look.

However, I found this very interesting-sounding book on Wikipedia: The Book of Dead Days (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Dead_Days). I'm inclined to see whether my library has it.