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PERSONS RESTORED TO LIFE. 457
filled with dead bodies. A woman named Nicole Len-
til] et, shared the general fate, and after several days ill-
ness she fell into such a swoon that she was judged to be
dead, and was buried in one of the general graves. The
mornino- after her interment she revived, and endea-
voured to release herself from that disagreeable situation;
but her weakness, and the weight of the bodies with
which she was covered, prevented her. In this horrible
condition she remained four days, till she was disengaged
by the people who brought some more dead bodies, and
who carried her back to her own house, where she per-
fectly recovered.
The city of Thoulouse furnishes several examples of
precipitate interment: among the rest the following is
particularly remarkable. A lady having been buried in
the church of the Jacobins, with a diamond rinu; on her
finger, one of her servants concealed himself in the
church, and at night went down into the vault where
the coffin had been deposited. Having opened it, and
the finger being so swelled as to prevent the removal of
the ring, he fell to work to cut it off. The violence of
the pain caused the supposed corpse to shriek out vio-
lently; the servant, terrified to death, fell down in a state
of insensibility. The lady, meanwhile, continued to
moan. The time of matins fortunately arriving, some
of the monks heard the sound, went down into the
vault, where they found the lady sitting up, and the ser-
vant half dead. A messenger was dispatched to call up
the husband, who carried his wife home. She recovered;
but “the servant experienced such a violent shock, that
after languishing twenty-four hours, he made a compen-
sation to death for the victim which he snatched from his
clutches.
Gentil Cariscendi, a gentleman of Bologna, having
become enamoured of the wife of Nicolas Chass^nnemi,
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filled with dead bodies. A woman named Nicole Len-
til] et, shared the general fate, and after several days ill-
ness she fell into such a swoon that she was judged to be
dead, and was buried in one of the general graves. The
mornino- after her interment she revived, and endea-
voured to release herself from that disagreeable situation;
but her weakness, and the weight of the bodies with
which she was covered, prevented her. In this horrible
condition she remained four days, till she was disengaged
by the people who brought some more dead bodies, and
who carried her back to her own house, where she per-
fectly recovered.
The city of Thoulouse furnishes several examples of
precipitate interment: among the rest the following is
particularly remarkable. A lady having been buried in
the church of the Jacobins, with a diamond rinu; on her
finger, one of her servants concealed himself in the
church, and at night went down into the vault where
the coffin had been deposited. Having opened it, and
the finger being so swelled as to prevent the removal of
the ring, he fell to work to cut it off. The violence of
the pain caused the supposed corpse to shriek out vio-
lently; the servant, terrified to death, fell down in a state
of insensibility. The lady, meanwhile, continued to
moan. The time of matins fortunately arriving, some
of the monks heard the sound, went down into the
vault, where they found the lady sitting up, and the ser-
vant half dead. A messenger was dispatched to call up
the husband, who carried his wife home. She recovered;
but “the servant experienced such a violent shock, that
after languishing twenty-four hours, he made a compen-
sation to death for the victim which he snatched from his
clutches.
Gentil Cariscendi, a gentleman of Bologna, having
become enamoured of the wife of Nicolas Chass^nnemi,
Vol. II. m m m and