A 19thC Cornish woman's well dressed ghost inhabits a room in St Ives, a room people pass in fear at night.

In order to prevent the wanderings of such troubled spirits, the latter were frequently imprisoned by the old exorcists in locked rooms. An aged St Ives lady once told the writer that she remembered a room in John Knill's house, in Fore Street, which had long been kept locked on account of the spirit of a lady 'dressed very fine with all her jewellery upon her', which had been laid to rest therein. She often visited the house in her girlhood, and remembered the fear with which the inhabitants passed the door of this room after dark.

This story has the ghost of the lady confined to the room where she died. I wonder if a locked door and a closed room weresufficient to confine a ghost? Must there have been charms or spells involved by the local exorcist?