But a much more remarkable tale (*3) is told of a field-labourer of Samos who was so devoted to the farmer for whom he worked, that when he died he became a vrykolakas and continued secretly to give his services. At night he would go to the farm-buildings, take out the oxen from their stall, yoke them, and plough three acres while his master slept ; in the daytime an equal piece of work was done by the master — so that incidentally the oxen were nearly killed. The neighbours however having had their suspicions aroused by the rapidity of the work, which the farmer himself could in no wise explain, kept watch one night, and having detected the vrykolakas opened his grave, found him, as would be expected, whole and incorrupt, and burned him.

*3: Ihid, p. 591.

- ”Modern Greek folklore and ancient Greek religion: a study in survivals” by John Cuthbert Lawson, p. 395