Why are peacock feathers bad luck?
For a bad luck item, they have considerable sales potential and souvenir value= there is a store in New York that sells them and also all manner of stuffed birds- in connection with a floristry business. Peacock feathers were placed inside the casket of Sarah Bernhardt- this shows in the photos of her actual (not dry run) Wake or visitaiton, the dry runs do not have flowers- and/or Peacock Feathers, the real ones do. As Peacocks are not native to France, and NBC was unknown at the time- except as a Radio Station.-this cannot be a standard ( French Mortuary custom). I am puzzled by it. connection with coffin, as with flowers to some people, could have morbid or bad-luck aspects… but… The Night has a thousand eyes- the peacock cannot see through his tail feathers, sadly!