Edgar

Continuing yesterdays blog about being buried alive. The Victorians were paranoid about it (and rightly so as one lady was buried alive although all she had done was consumed to much Brandy!!). So much so that weird contraptions were invented for those that were convinced it might happen to them. One device involved having a small hole bored in the coffin lid. Into this was inserted a very long tube with a two way valve and wire that was attached to a flag. If the corpse woke up then all they had to do was blow into the tube to open the valve and pull the wire and the flag would shoot out the top of the tube alerting, the no doubt terrified visitor in the Cemetery
I have no evidence that anyone woke up to do this?
Even today some people are buried with a mobile phone. We did ring one of these that we buried one day and it was engaged?
However the best way would be as Errol Flynn did. 6 bottles of fine malt whisky were put in the coffin with him. At least if he woke up he could have a bit of a party?
Wish I had not bothered practicing last night as my lip was terrible? Fluffed and cracked notes? Mind you as I am not firing on 4 valves again I totally expected this and just have to ride it out.
Looking back at my Family tree I noticed that I had a relative who wanted to be a Farmer. He wanted to raise Chickens so he bought 3000 of them. They all unfortunately died? he figured that maybe he had planted them all ,to close together?