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Barbadian Gothic: The Moving Coffins of the Chase Vault in Socio-Cultural Context

Authors :
Christina Welch
Niall Finneran
Source :
Folklore. 131:55-75
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 2020.

Abstract

The Chase family vault (Oistins, Barbados) is widely known as the setting of a macabre nineteenth-century story of moving coffins. On several occasions between 1812 and 1821, on opening the sealed ...

Details

ISSN :
14698315 and 0015587X
Volume :
131
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Folklore
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........bf724263400c268ac04915515919dc8d
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2019.1637561