The parish clerk reopened the grave of a married woman in order to take her wedding ring. He couldn’t get it off so he amputated the finger. The corpse sat up and screamed. The woman had been buried whilst in a trance. She walked home to her shocked husband, who praised the parish-clerk for saving her, despite having sawn her finger off, giving him an annual web of linen (as he was a linen manufacturer).
Gutch/Folklore
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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