The Wife of Beith, and her Journey to Heaven, is a chapbook published in Falkirk, but based off of the same story by Geoffrey Chaucer. Chapbooks often reiterated older stories and songs, and used popular and familiar literary images. Chaucer's Tales are no exception to this rule, and here his "Wife of Beith" is redistributed by Scottish peddlers, and is relevant to the Scots' atentiveness to superstition and religion.

    The story starts out in Beith where a "worthy wife" suddenly becomes ill and dies, and the plot revolves around her ascension to heaven and constant allusions to biblical figures like St. Paul and Jacob. She is initially harrassed by Lucifer, who tries to manipulate her by showing her the way to heaven, but she eventually refuses him, saying:

Adieu false fiend; I may not bide,
With thee I may no longer stay;

My God in death he was my Guide,
O'er hell I'll get the victory.

So the Tale acts as a religious cautionary tale in a way.