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Burial Alive Burial AliveAntigonecondemned to be buried alive, she thwarts Creon’s order by killing herself. [Gk. Lit.: Antigone]Fortunatowalled up in a catacomb by the man he had wronged. [Am. Lit.: Poe “The Cask of Amontillado”]Lafourcade, Victorinefound alive in her tomb by her rejected suitor. [Am. Lit.: Poe “The Premature Burial”]Sindbadentombed, by custom, upon his wife’s death, he manages to escape. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights; Magill II, 50]Usher, Madelinebreaks out of vault in which she had been buried alive. [Am. Lit.: Poe “Fall of the House of Usher”] |