I'm Pretty Sure They Used This Plot on an Episode of Seinfeld

The Tudor jest-book, A Hundred Merry Tales, tells the story of John Adoyne, a Suffolk man who unwittingly terrifies his neighbours by wandering around the town in his demon's costume after a local religious play. The squire, on being told the devil is at his door, "marvelously abashed called up his chaplain and made the holy candle [i.e., one used at the Candlemas procession] to be lighted to be