MODERN RIP VAN WINKLES.
A woman who lived near Limoges asked her; husband >. on* ? evening to go 'to inquire after the health of her father. 1 When he returned 'he , could 4 rot wake ■■ net. '• Months liter «be suddenly . opened hsr eyes and, seeing her husband, exclaimed, '%aek already? Will how Is father.-" Ret fatn>if na<i been dead for fax month*: ; '■?■ ,'i.' Marguerite Bouy*n*l. a t»r if nineteen, was mctJiaf. Ironing: near ; the' d«wr of her cottagi .-.ln'■,. Themlles when; ,* n*i-jh6.»iir. yfaj-ing ci K>me sjset dread in her mind, cried,' sharply-: "Mere are the . gendarmes coming to arrest your Marguerite fell into violent ; hysterica, which were followed by J a state of coma. She slept for 20 years—nb.t a day Ms. In'lßo.l she returned to life. Every year for 89 years a woman fen into a trance front Karca HI to; March 19. On February 28 she went to confession; on March 1 she lay down, holding a croclflx in her Croaaed hand*, and fat 18 day* she issstliitd wtt* »• «C Mia, ' -_l_ L -;''•"'-.. ''■'"' '■■■' : : "" ; 'fi : ■■ * ' : " -.' -" '■'•. /
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 252, 23 October 1926, Page 23
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