When the Church Cracked in Västra Stenby
Östergötland · Sweden · Church
In the midst of the sermon at the old man's funeral, the ground shook — pots leapt on the hearths and Västra Stenby church split open.
On the day the notorious old man was buried in Västra Stenby, a powerful earthquake is said to have struck the district. It was so violent that cooking pots jumped on the hearths and the church cracked in the middle of the sermon, so that it afterward had to be held together with iron clamps. The old folk took it as a sign that the Devil himself had come to fetch the old man, who used to say he could not die without being beaten to death or carried off by the Evil One.
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When the Church Cracked in Västra Stenby is in Östergötland, Sweden.
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