The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-04-12
BURIED ALITE.
EyE STARTLING INSTANCES OF PRENA-
TURE BURIAL.
IBelgravia Magazlno.1

lBelgravia Aagazn".1
A fsr mOn hs ago young and beautiful
4omau. on the eve Of her marriage with
b. man she loved, was buried in the neigh
krhOJG Of Lodi, ia Piedmont, in accord
ice with .he doctors Ger iticate. The
ssctor was ef the opinion that the girl had
ed from excitement-over-jOy, it IS said,
at the prospect Of being married, but the
kral name for the catastrophe was disease
b the heart, and with this verdict herplace
Il society was declared vacant. When the
i f-st shove'fIll Of earth was thrown down
b. the coffin, strange noises were beard
Succeeding the efrJm. ''as of evil spirits
d sputing over the body of the dead" The
k1avr-liggpTs took to fight, and the
lyUruers began praying bat the bride
g01m less superStitious than the others,
Insisted Uu the coffin being unuailed. This
Fls dome but too Late the girl was found
j. al at.ItUde Of horror aud pain Impossible
b describe: her eyes wide open, her teeth
encued- her hands clatchiug her hair.
fc was extinct. bur when laid in her
sLoud. the day before, her eyes were closed
or bands weIe folded on her breast as If
j. prayer.
In some instances the victims Of trance
ave been known to rise out of their collins.
q case is recorded Of a young lady IN Leip-
segy0aS attack, was placed in her coffin in
Der parents house aud there kept daly
..ressed for the grave, with the lid of the
{ fin still unnailed. While the family
wele at supper she appeared in her wind
ng-sheet at tire paIlor door; pale and
Heightened but fair to see as before her
Supposed death Father and mother and
s'egS sarted up with cries of horror aud
Pushed OFT cf the Icom by another door,
Believing her to be ghost. 1t WAS only
after 5cug interval, during which they
entered and found her at the table eating
and drinking, That they persuaded them
selves hat The girl still lived. They tound
her coffin empty ; ergo, the ghost III the
E IaII1r was living soul The doctor, the
priest, and the undertaken saw the error OF
their ways, and the deed was cancelled
which declared the lady 4 corpse. On the
following year another deed was made out
i1r the same lady, and the same priest of
uoiated, but not the doctor or the undeTta.
ker The lady was married, and lived tc
De The mother of many children.
Mission, in his Hedic1l fRccdotes, tells a
story Of a lady, who, in 1911, was buried
& alive IN Cologne. This lady was the wife
oI consul, and was placed III the family
Vault gay attire, with rings on her fingers
Der Wedding day. Robbers repaired 10 hel
grave at dead of night to steal her jewelry
'nd were taking the rings from her fingers
Which were damp and swollen. when the
lady awoke, and, sitting bolt upright, as il
8 galvanized, stared and smiled at her visit
o'S. One Of the three men fell down in ;
s "., Tearing the devil or his agency, aud the
e'AeES took to their heels ''as if pursued bl
Asnds. The lady walked home aud wa
received by her husband, first with fear anC
r. eI"aIds with transports of joy, and hve'
lO' many long day in health and happi
uesS. IN the Church of the Holy Apostle
a. cologne Is a picture of the Consu1s wifi
waxing from the tomb. but the event i
ssc'iOed as miracle, and death aud not
rance is the subject of the picture.
but there are double deaths-twO fol'
SlfIals-which are perhaps the most horri
o.e oi all Society thinks it is burying ou
PERSON, but the deceased being 4 woman
IH! from the point Of view Of maternit.
pp'ude two lives. or even more. Gaspar
.'7jgs tells the story of child born IN IT,
S''no whose mother was buried alive. To
Huy was the wife of man of propert
n@'ned Francesca Orvallos, and 'died'
r%une Tar advanced in pregnancy, durini
ler husbands absence Orvallos. return
,"E nome the day after the funeral, had tn
Ino opened, not because he suspected fou
p"y' out because he wished to gaze ono
"O'e on the face Of his beloved. The lad
Hs 'h truth dead, but death had transpire'
he grave. A child, struggling into eX
'|ce, met the gaze Of the beIeaved has