This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

before it was sprawled the mangled corpse of the bearded stranger.

The corpse was on a table, covered by a sheet.

After Agrippina's death, Nero viewed her corpse and commented how beautiful she was, according to some.

Despite the legend of his divorce and remarriage, Amram was also held to have been entirely sinless throughout his life, and was rewarded for this by his corpse remaining without any signs of decay.

When the hermits were gathered to Saint Anthony's corpse to mourn his death, Saint Anthony was revived.

The most effective means of preventing the return of the dead was believed to be the corpse door.

A special door was built, through which the corpse was carried feet-first with people surrounding it so the corpse couldn't see where it was going.

This concept was to be complicated by the fact that the corpse had begun to putrefy.

Nanna, the wife of Baldr ( whose heart burst upon seeing the corpse of Baldr and was placed upon the pyre with Baldr ), gives gifts to Hermóðr to return to Asgard with.

Once in the arena morgue, the corpse would have been stripped of armour, and probably had its throat cut to prove that dead was dead.

After his death his corpse was removed to the village of Thodanum ( T ' ordan-modern Doğanköy, near Erzincan ).

His corpse was then transported by friends to the First Cemetery in Athens.

There is no evidence that Julian's corpse was skinned and displayed, and it is likely that the illustrator simply confused the fate of Julian's body with that of Emperor Valerian ( emperor ) | Valerian.

The corpse, was 16 – 18 feet long and weighed up to 1. 5 tonnes, described by the Press Association as having " a bear's head and a brown scaly body with clawlike fins.

Labs and notes that the corpse was altered postmortem to make it resemble Lex Luthor.

Romano's bullet-riddled corpse was left at his bound comrades ' feet as a warning.

* Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, was killed of wounds suffered at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, his corpse was beheaded, castrated and quartered by the knights of King Henry III of England.

Roger of Hoveden claimed that Henry's corpse bled from the nose in Richard's presence, which was taken as a sign that Richard had caused his death.

While she and her maidservant are carrying his corpse to his house, they are taken by the Signory.

While serving as ambassador to Russia in February 1834, Ahmed Pasha presented Tsar Nicholas with a number of gifts, including a jewel-encrusted sword supposedly taken from Constantine XI's corpse.

The body was taken by Thomas Neville, Lord Furnival, to Whitchurch, Shropshire for burial ; however when rumours circulated that Percy was still alive, the King ' had the corpse exhumed and displayed it, propped upright between two millstones, in the market place at Shrewsbury '.

The walk was not meant to be taken as the route of a corpse road but the possibility of bad weather and difficult conditions make it an appropriate club song.

Lichfield Drive was the route that the dead ( from the Anglo-Saxon ‘ lich ’ meaning a corpse ) were taken for burial at St Mary ’ s churchyard.

After her death, the corpse of Constance was taken to the town of Sahagún and was buried in the Monastery of St. Facundo and Primitivo, where her husband, King Alfonso VI would be buried along with all his wives.

The story's name is taken from a line in the Frank O ' Hara's poem " Ode to Necrophilia ", and was inspired by a newspaper article Gowdy read about a young California woman who hijacked a hearse on its way to a funeral, took the corpse of the young man inside the coffin to a motel room and had sex with it for several days before being caught by the police.

Divine's corpse was taken to Ruck's Funeral Home in Towson, where an extra-large coffin was obtained for it.

During this time, Romero was rumored to have been killed ( aptly enough, with a headshot ) and a photograph of his corpse with a bullet wound was also spread through the Internet ; Romero himself later stated that the picture was taken for the magazine Texas Monthly, and that " maybe he shouldn't have taken it ".

But the plan backfires, and it is Nola, not Bea, whose corpse is taken away from Wentworth.

Howlett mentions sin-eating as an old custom in Hereford, and thus describes the practice: ' The corpse being taken out of the house, and laid on a bier, a loaf of bread was given to the sin-eater over the corpse, also a maga-bowl of maple, full of beer.

His corpse remained on the scaffold for the following day, until it was taken for burial in an unmarked grave at Greyfriars Kirkyard.

When the family has enough money to organize the ceremony, the corpse is taken from the cold chamber for burial.

The pages of X-Force show a group of Purifiers digging up the corpse of Graydon Creed, his body is then taken back to the purifiers base where it is re-animated by Bastion using the techno-organic virus taken from an " offspring " of Magus.

The cover picture of the single is taken from the 6 October 1976 Massacre in Thailand, and depicts a member of the rightist crowd beating the corpse of a student protester with a metal chair.

Zrinsky's corpse was beheaded and his head taken to the Emperor while his body received an honourable burial by a Turk who had been his prisoner, and well treated by him.

His corpse was taken back to Sweden and buried in a mound.

He embalmed the corpse of Bel and ordered it to be taken to Hark where it was to be buried in a high place in the view of the wives and sons of the king.

( This is not the original Moriarty but in fact his clone, created from cells taken from his corpse, which Holmes had buried in a Swiss ice cave.

Laborers --- facetiously called " Sonderkommando 1005 " (" special commando / s 1005 ")--- would be taken under guard to a closed death camp to clear the site of structures while a sub-unit, the " Leichenkommandos " ( corpse commandos ), were forced to exhume bodies from mass graves, burn the remains ( usually on timber and iron-rail " roasts "), and sometimes to grind down larger bone pieces in portable bone-crusher mills.

Pereira came back from Goa, removed the corpse shortly after 15 April 1553, and moved it to his house.

Himmler's corpse in Allied custody after his suicide by poison, 1945

* Gilles van Ledenberg, whose embalmed corpse was hanged from a gibbet in 1619, after his conviction of treason in the trial of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt.

For example, the corpse of Pope Formosus was thrown into the Tiber after the infamous Cadaver Synod held in 897.

As they worked, one of their wives, who was there helping to load the peat on a carriage, noticed in the peat layer a corpse so fresh that they could only assume that they had discovered a recent murder victim, and after much deliberation among the workers, she notified the police in Silkeborg.

Soon after the rumours of the Beast begin to flourish, the corpse of a fighter pilot, ejected from his aircraft, falls to the island.

The alleged remark of political organizer Thurlow Weed, that a corpse found floating in the Niagara River was " a good enough Morgan " until after the election, summarized the value of the crime for the opponents of Jackson.

Dressing himself in Posthumus's clothes, he determines to go to Wales and kill Posthumus while Imogen looks on, after which he will rape her on Posthumus's corpse before dragging her back to court for marriage.

Despite killing the Arab man with the first gunshot, he shoots the corpse four more times after a brief pause.

Plutarch also states that Set steals and dismembers the corpse only after Isis has retrieved it.

Quasimodo then goes to the vaults under the huge gibbet of Montfaucon, and lies next to Esmeralda's corpse, where it had been unceremoniously thrown after the execution.

In March 1821, he graduated from high school in Grenoble, and in October, at age 18, Berlioz was sent to Paris to study medicine, a field for which he had no interest and, later, outright disgust after viewing a human corpse being dissected.

For example, some parasitic species prey on a host organism and then lay their eggs on it for their offspring to feed on it while it continues to live or on its decaying corpse after it has died.

They do not take up residence in a corpse until three to six months after death.

He explains in detail on how to examine a corpse both before and after burial.

They do not take up residence in a corpse until three to six months after death.

Suetonius adds the macabre detail that " when she died ... after a delay of several days, during which he held out hope of his coming, was at last buried because the condition of the corpse made it necessary ...".

At Hector ’ s birth mighty fate predetermined that his corpse would be devoured by dogs after his death, and Hecabe is crying desperately asking for revenge.

The priestess of the oracle at Delphi became known as the Pythia, after the place-name Pytho, which Greeks explained as named after the rotting ( πύθειν ) of the slain serpent's corpse in the strength of Hyperion ( day ) or Helios ( the sun ).

On the seventh night after the event, with lightning, throwing sparks, the corpse of her husband stood before the woman who dropped dead of fright.

Later, they come upon Drew's grotesquely-contorted corpse and after being unable to find any definite gunshot wound, they also weigh it down into the river.

Hans Frank's corpse after his hanging

Emperor toured with the then little known British group Cradle of Filth, and after this tour the band ceased wearing corpse paint ; they stated that it was becoming a trend and losing its original significance and symbolism.