Wedding shirts

This is a illustration for a poem by the great and powerful K. J. Erben, the czech E. A. Poe - perhaps better concerning some aspects. His most known works are in the book of poetry Kytice (Boquets), and one of them is titled Wedding Shirts (Svatební Košile / slovak Svadobné Košele).
The title stems from the Czech, Slovak and other surrounding countries tradition mostly from the past that when a girl wanted to marry, she had to bring in some of the property of her family into the new house (it was called 'veno'.) And of course, she had to prove she was good around the household, which included bringing self-made shirts for herself and her beloved!

Anyway. The poem starts with a girl mourning that her lover was gone in the war for nearly four years and wasn't yet back, and made a wish that 'either bring him back to me or cut my life short'. Moments later, there was a call from outside and tap on the window from said lover, excited to take her to his home right then. In the middle of the night.
Of course, she didn't assume right away that something was off with him, and went... even though he did hint on the way that he wasn't quite alive anymore.
Realization came when he didn't want a cross near him, or even prayer books, and it hit home fully when the final destination showed to be a cemetery.
Long story short, she fled into a morgue, in which there was a corpse too, and the dead man went tapping three times and calling the corpse to stand up - two times to open the door, and the third time (when it was near dawn and he was probably growing desperate) to 'hand him over the living girl'. Then the rooster was heard and everything went silent.

When she came out, on every cross in the cemetery a piece of a shirt hung, ripped to pieces.
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There were lots of interpretations as for what happened - perhaps God wanted to punish her for the words, or the wish itself rouse the dead, or the man was recently deceased and couldn't rest in peace unless he went to see her again... or he was just a selfish bastard that didn't want to stay alone in the grave. Make of it what you will!

I was inspired by the movie version of the whole book, because the actors were fantastic. You don't even need to understand what they say to know, what's going on.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PGfJm…