[hardy-l] short caskets

[Betty Cortus]

On Jul 17, 2009, at 5:51 AM, Kevin Taylor wrote:

> I imagine, people being what they are, this sort of incident  
> happened everywhere. The shortening of a corpse to fit a casket,  
> that is, and not the supernatural revenge …

I believe that is what they call a procrustian solution to the  
problem Kevin named for the mythological character Procrustes, who  
put his unwitting house guests in a bed too short for them then cut  
off their legs to make them fit.
Betty