The 19thC Cornish Parson Richards of Camborne admonishes two miners from Treswithian for interrupting his exorcism.

Pre–eminent among the ghost–layers of the more recent past was Parson Richards, of Camborne. On one occasion two miners who had been working 'first core by night', i.e. 6–10 p.m., were going homeward by a path which lay through the churchyard. In was close on midnight when they reached this spot, and accordingly they were much astonished to see the parson himself standing in the porch, a prayer–book in one hand, a candle in the other, and a horsewhip hanging over his shoulder. Their curiosity aroused, they went forward to speak to him, when, to their amazement, he suddenly turned upon them, exclaiming in a fury: 'What ded 'ee want for to go and break the spell like that? Two minutes more and I should have had 'un fast in hell. Now no one knows when I shall catch 'un again'. With which scarcely Christian sentiments upon his lips he seized his horsewhip and rushed at the men, driving them before him as far as their homes at 'Jethon' (Treswithian). This story is all the more remarkable from its being handed down in living tradition, Mr Jim Thomas, of Camborne, who related it to the writer, having actually heard in his boyhood the names of the two miners who were concerned.

Moral: Don't interrupt Parson Richards when you see him in the churchyard (cemetery) with a candle at night, or else you might be chased by the parson using his horsewhip on you.