Buried and resurrected. The ambiguous story of one Irish woman (8 photos)

“Yes, man is mortal, but that would be half the trouble. The bad thing that he sometimes suddenly dies, that's the trick! This phrase of the gloomy Many people know Bulgakov's Woland. But the notorious suddenness happens as wrong as death itself.





This was proved by a story that happened back in 1705 with an ordinary woman, Marjorie McCall. Marge was a quiet, modest woman and lived in the small Irish village of Church Place.



National costume of Northern Ireland

Times were difficult, epidemics mowed down entire cities. Not passed this fate and Marjorie. Fearing the spread of infection, the "kind" fellow villagers sent the unfortunate woman to quarantine, evicting to a separate hut. The woman's husband, John, was a local doctor and did his best efforts to save his wife. But in vain: the woman quickly withered away and passed away.

The heartbroken widower buried her in the local cemetery. Together with the only jewel - a golden ring. The family was poor. AND the man tried to remove the decoration in order to sell and buy provisions for children. But unsuccessfully. And to disfigure the body of the deceased and cut off the finger of John is not wanted.

Naturally, some of those present at the ceremony spotted the ring. And the rumor about the gold quickly spread through the beggar village. As soon as dusk fell on the cemetery, a couple of brave and greedy guys went to the graveyard to take possession of the ring.



Corpse Snatchers

They quickly dug up the hill and opened the coffin. But only only one of them tried to cut off Marjorie's finger with a knife (it is clear that the guys were not scrupulous in such matters), the woman suddenly opened abruptly eyes and sat in a coffin, staring at the thieves with an empty senseless with a look.

With a proud gait, a ghostly lady - pretty much rumpled, shaggy, sprinkled with earth and bloody, withdrew direction of the village, leaving the thieves sitting in a daze at the empty grave.

Meanwhile, John sat at home, sadly thinking about the future, about orphaned children. When there was a loud insistent knock on the door, the man was not surprised: fellow villagers often turned to him for help even at a late hour.



Seeing on the threshold of the deceased wife, whose white shroud was stained with clay and blood, the doctor experienced a lot of emotions in seconds. AND collapsed dead: the body could not stand it, and the unfortunate heart broke.

Legend has it that the newly minted widow McCall buried husband and then remarried. She also had children in her second marriage acquire. As for happily ever after, the story is about them is silent. But when Marjorie's time came, she died a second time and now forever.

Fairy tale lie?



Lurgan in the 19th century

The case of resurrection, which in science is now known as Lazarus syndrome, could be attributed to fiction and urban (or as in this situation rural) legends.



Jim Conway at Marjorie's gravestone

But the fact is that in Lurgan, a city near which there was the same village, at the local Shankill cemetery there is a woman's grave with an imposing monument. On which is written the following dedication “Marjorie McCall. The woman who lived one life was buried twice.



The tombstone was installed later, in the 19th century. It figured out local historian Jim Conway, who was interested in an unusual case. But it only confirms the fact that the case took place, actively discussed among the people. In this connection, the authorities decided to perpetuate the memory of a woman who happened to die twice.



Convel dug through the archives, found references to nine women named Marjorie McCall. Three of whom were married to men named John. Date of death - first death did not coincide with official (1705) in none of the cases. What is the reason - distortion word-of-mouth data or negligence of clerks - now not to know. But there are several other similar cases in history that received the common name "Lady with a Ring", which, apparently, prompted doctors to rassconsideration of the possibility of lethargic sleep in the case of imaginary the dead.