These spirits were often
prevented from wandering and disturbing the living by
being locked in certain rooms by an exorcist.
An aged St. Ive's
lady recounts how she remembers a room in John
Knill's house, in Fore Street, which had long be kept
locked because of a spirit of a lady "dressed
very fine with all her jewellery upon her,"
which she had been laid to rest in.
She often visited
that house as a child and remembered the fear of the
inhabitants as they passed the door of this room
after dark.
