The Empty Coffin of Jan Lythberg, Visby

Sverige · Kyrkogård · Uhygge 3/5

The moody merchant was immensely rich — and when the coffin was lowered into the grave, birch wood, not a body, tumbled about inside.

In Visby a tale was told of the merchant Jan Lythberg, an immensely rich but peculiar man who swung between dazzling banquets and hermit-like isolation. When he died, many wondered about his wealth, and people held that he had been in league with the Evil One, who had flown off with the body before it could be buried. To conceal the matter at the stately funeral, no one was allowed to see the corpse, and into the coffin was placed instead birch wood, which tumbled about with an audible thud when the coffin was carelessly lowered into the grave.

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