Folklore & legend

The Ghost Who Measured the Coffin

Township overlooking Loch Tay, Breadalbane

Undated folk-tale, collected by 1937

The beggar saw a spectre in white climb on the bench and try to stretch out in the coffin, but it was too short, and the spectre vanished. He told the joiner in the morning that the coffin was too short for the body. The joiner laughed, measured the corpse again, and found that the coffin had to be enlarged. The story has no names and no fixed farm, and the coordinates show only the Loch Tay district.

Evidence
Long-standing local tradition
Access
Access unrecorded
Location
56.512, -4.140 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)

Sources: Mysterious Britain and Ireland, Ghost In A Coffin [other]

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