Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day her family and friends followed her coffin to St. Michel's Roman Catholic Church. Suddenly, the pallbearers began to exchange uneasy glances; the weight of the coffin was shifting for all the world as though someone was moving inside it. They broke into a terrified trot. Inside the church, they set the coffin in the aisle and opened it. They found Alina lying there with her eyes open-dazed but unmistakably alive...
...week, except for a stiff neck, Alina had almost completely recovered. Physicians attributed her deathlike state to a severe attack of malaria. Her awakening, they guessed, might have been caused by the noise and motion of the funeral. For the stiff neck they had an even simpler explanation: her coffin had been too short...