When resurrected they are only by
degrees restored to life, and present a wan, haggard,
debilitated, and wasted appearance. Braid is credited, on the
authority of Sir Claude Wade, with stating that a fakir was
buried in an unconscious state at Lahore in 1837, and when dug
up, six weeks later, he presented all the appearances of a dead
person. The legs and arms were shrunken and stiff, and the head
reclined on the shoulder in a manner frequently seen in a corpse.
There was no pulsation of the heart or arteries of the arm or
temple--in fact, no really visible signs of life. By degrees this
person was restored to life. Every precaution had been taken in
this case to prevent the possibility of fraud, and during the
period of interment the grave was guarded night and day by
soldiers of the regiment stationed at Lahore.
Honigberger, a German physician in the employ of Runjeet Singh,
has an account of a fakir of Punjaub who allowed himself to be
buried in a well- secured vault for such a long time that grain
sown in the soil above the vault sprouted into leaf before he was
exhumed. Honigberger affirms that the time of burial was over 40
days, and that on being submitted to certain processes the man
recovered and lived many years after.
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