The Thistles Upon the Grave

Name: Fantastic Fables - The Thistles Upon the Grave
Author: Ambrose Bierce

A MIND Reader made a wager that he would be buried alive and remain so for six months, then be dug up alive. In order to secure the grave against secret disturbance, it was sown with thistles. At the end of three months, the Mind Reader lost his money. He had come up to eat the thistles.

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Chicago: Ambrose Bierce, "The Thistles Upon the Grave," Fantastic Fables in Fantastic Fables (New York: The Century Co., 1899), Original Sources, accessed July 13, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DLW8S8UUZWTLQ7J.

MLA: Bierce, Ambrose. "The Thistles Upon the Grave." Fantastic Fables, in Fantastic Fables, New York, The Century Co., 1899, Original Sources. 13 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DLW8S8UUZWTLQ7J.

Harvard: Bierce, A, 'The Thistles Upon the Grave' in Fantastic Fables. cited in 1899, Fantastic Fables, The Century Co., New York. Original Sources, retrieved 13 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DLW8S8UUZWTLQ7J.