Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-09-30
REMARKABLE FRANCES.
PEOPLE WHO HAVE NARROWLY
ESCAPED BURIAL ALIVE.
= Man Who Could Induce an Attack
OF Catalepsy at Will-Aequainted
With All tho Arrangements
for His Burial.


OF death The pulsations OF the heart
became inperceptibe and it was inn
possible to discern any respiratory
action. His ace became colorless and
his entire frame rigid. in which state
he would continue for several hours
when all the symptoms would wear
away.
A case recorded by Plutarch would
seem to support the theory that dur
ing such periods OF FRUSTRATED insen-
sibility the spirit OF the sleeper. freed
from the body. wanders away to
realms and scenes not conceivable by
the ordinary senses A man named
Thespiua he tells u.s. fell from a great
height and was picked up TO all APP
pearances dead. There were no ex-
ternal wounds about him but the ply
sicians were satisfied OF tho fact OF the
decease
Arrangements was made for his
bur al but on the third day after his
fall he revived much to the conster-
nation OF his friends In a short time
it became quite evident that the whole
tenor OF the mans life had changed.
Previously his character was that OF
a reprobate and vicious man. but
after his insens.b ility he ever followed
after virtue. On being asked the
reason OF the change Thespius related
that during his long sleep his spirit
had been liberated from his body and
had scared away to a strange land.
where it had joined a whole company
OF other spirits. His past life was
disclosed TO him in all its hideousness
and the glorious capabilities which
were before him were revealed in
such a manner as to make him ambi-
tions OF attaining them
Dr. Passavant also records an in
stance of peasant boy who revived
after being supposed TO be dead for
several days says the Yankee Blade.
The boy bitterly resented mis- being
called back to lie and informed those
who gathered about him that he had
been in n beautiful place aud had
associated and conversed with his de-
ceased relatives Before his insensi.
bility his faculties were not even
ordinarily brilliant but afterward he
conversed and prayed with surprising
1t cannot be doubted that in numer-
Gus cases of cataleptic trance the APP
parently lifeless patient has been &C.
quainted with all the arrangements
being made for his interment Sew
eral instances are recorded in which
although the body presented every
of death the patient was
conscious of everything going on
around him. but absolutely unable TO |
raise n limb or in any way communi-
cate with those near his bed.
DIR. Binns mentions the case OF a
girl who lay in this state for a con-
siderable time and then revived. She |
actually heard every word that was
said around her. but was unable TO |
give the slightest evidence OF her
continued vitality. She afterwards
said that her horror was simply in
1escribable. She had endeavored to !
shout and to move, but in vain. At
length her state OF mind when she |
was being prepared for burial was
such as TO cause her TO break out in a
profuse Precipitation. and she recov-
cred. She described the sensation
very much in the same way as the |
;omnambulists say they feel. Her
soul she said. seemed to have no |
power to act upon her body. 1t |
seemed to BIO in the body and out of it
At the same lime.
.3Several remarkably narrow escapes |
rom being buried alive are mentioned. !
A Mr.. g.. who had been i'll some time. |
ell into what was thought his last |
sleep. The medical attendant how |
ever had suspicious in his own mind. |
which he did not care TO communica |
10 the mans family for fear OF arous.
ng false hopes. He therefore put OF |
MS sanction of the burial from day to |
lay. much to the indignation of the !
dead mans mother. On the |
18th day however the doctor had |
he qualification OF seeing his patient
'evive. Mr. &. some time afterward |
had recurrence OF the malal y. this
lime lasting seven days.
In Ireland the custom used to prevail |
of burying the dead rs soon after
.helr certified decease as possible. 1t
s very probable that many were thus
buried alive 1t is related that n
certain DIR. Walker of Dublin. enter
aimed such strong views upon this
question that he never wearied OF dis
,oursing upon it and even wrote
embodying his views which
vas widely circulated While con-
'ersing one day with his friend. Mrs.
3ellamy a celebrated actress. the
ady informed him that she herself
would take care that he should not
% committed TO the cold embrace
" mother earth until indis-
)utable evidence was forthcoming
II his death. provided his de-
ease preceded hers Some time
lfterward the doctor contracted a
ever OF which it was supposed he
lied. In spite OF tho opposition he
lad raised to the prevailing custom.
10 was buried the day following Mrs
3ellamy was at the time in Ireland,
md hearing OF his death and burial,
he fastened to Dublin. and at once
lad his body exhumed. Her consid-
'rate Offices. however. came too late.
IN opening tho coffin il was found