The Books, Manuscripts and Literary Patronage of Mrs Anne Sadleir (1585-1670)

Mrs Anne Sadleir died in 1670 and rose from the dead in 1921. Eyewitnesses in 1921 described a shrouded figure 'about four to five feet high', which sprang on its victim and sank its teeth into his neck, before vanishing as mysteriously as it had appeared, leaving only a heap of dust. 'Effect on the blood like the worst kind of snake-bite', according to the police surgeon's report; 'death almost instantaneous'.