For example, a shot of a zombie getting its head cut off may, for instance, start with a view of an axe being swung through the air, followed by a close-up of the actor swinging it, then followed by a cut back to the now severed head.

The executioner brings his axe down, and the queen's severed head drops onto the ground.

However, in the account of Attic vase-painters, Hephaestus was present at the birth of Athena and wields the axe with which he split Zeus ' head to free her.

Thus they arranged for Tarquinius Priscus to be assassinated with an axe blow to the head.

The blade was around 18 inches ( 55 cm ) long, on the end of a pole 6 or 7 feet ( 180 – 210 cm ) long However, instead of having a tang like a sword or naginata, the blade is affixed in a socket-shaft configuration similar to an axe head, both the blade and shaft varying in length.

The ji resembles a Chinese spear with a crescent blade attached to the head, as sort of an axe blade.

The sons of Ancus hired two of the most ferocious shepherds, who approached the king in the palace and struck his head with an axe.

Elisha performed two other miracles at the Jordan: he healed Naaman by having him bathe in its waters, and he made the axe head of one of the " children of the prophets " float, by throwing a piece of wood into the water (; ).

With the Englishman only feet away, Bruce turned aside, stood in his stirrups and hit the knight so hard with his axe that he split his helmet and head in two.

The group was influenced by the Italian Mannaia ( or Mannaja ), the Scottish Maiden and the Halifax Gibbet, which was fitted with an axe head weighing 7 pounds 12 ounces ( 3. 5 kg ).

The blade was an axe head weighing 3. 5 kg, attached to the bottom of a massive wooden block that slid up and down via grooves in the uprights.

While the condemned is lying on a bench, a device holds an axe head in position above the neck.

As the executioner brought the axe above his head, Clarke stopped the camera, had all of the actors freeze, and had the person playing Mary step off the set.

He placed a Mary dummy in the actor's place, restarted filming, and allowed the executioner to bring the axe down, severing the dummy's head.

Simon Sudbury's part-mummified head is preserved in his home town of Sudbury, clearly showing the axe mark.

Olaf killed Klerkon with an axe blow to the head.

His head was severed by one stroke of the executioner ’ s axe.

Finally Cúchulainn cut off the churl's head, and submitted himself to the churl's axe the following day as promised.

A pillar from Trier shows a man with an axe cutting down a tree in which sit three birds and a bull's head.

Sedna clings to the kayak but her father grabs a little axe and chops three of her fingers off before striking her on the head.

Shango altars often contain an often-seen carved figure of a woman holding her bosom as a gift to the god with a single double-blade axe sticking up from her head.

Just as he lifted his axe to severe Shankara's head, Lord Vishnu as Narasimha entered the body OF Shankaracharya's disciple, Padmapada, who was a devotee of Narasimha, and fought the Kapalika, slayed him and thus freed the forest of Kapalikas.

As the conflict developed among the Jamadagni and the King, Kartavirya Arjuna lost his cool and chopped off the head of Jamadagni. When Parashurama ( Jamadagni's son and one of the DaśāvatārasVishnu ) returned to the hermitage, he was informed of the context by his mother. In revenge, Parashurama killed the entire clan of Kartavirya Arjuna and the King with the axe given to him by Shiva, thus conquering the entire earth, which he gave to Brahamanas.

Haakon's standard bearer, Ofeigr, refused to execute Magnus, and an angry Haakon made his cook Lifolf kill Magnus by striking him on the head with an axe.

No one thing in the world is ever abruptly separated, as by the blow of an axe, from the rest of things.

Fire is represented in the Aztec religion by a flint ; to the Native Americans, a mouse ; to the Hindu and Islamic faiths, a lightning bolt ; to the Scythians, an axe, to the Greeks, an apple-bough ; and in Christian iconography, a lion.

The perception of Hume as an atheist with an axe to grind is an oversimplification and contrasts his views on extremist positioning.

In Pliny's Natural History ( 7. 198 ) he is credited with inventing carpentry " and with it the saw, axe, plumb-line, drill, glue, and isinglass ".

Fasces (, a plurale tantum, from the Latin word fascis, meaning " bundle ") are a bundle of wooden sticks with an axe blade emerging from the center, which is an image that traditionally symbolizes summary power and jurisdiction, and / or " strength through unity ".

In other words to " hack " at an original creation, as if with an axe, is to force-fit it into being usable for a task not intended by the original creator, and a " hacker " would be someone who does this habitually.

* Axe kick – is a stomp out kick or axe kick.

An axe kick, also known as a hammer kick or stretch kick, is characterized by a straightened leg descending onto an opponent like the blade of an axe.

Oak is a heavy, durable timber that can be easily worked by adze and axe when green ( wet / unseasoned ).

Labyrinth is a word of pre-Greek ( Minoan ) origin absorbed by Classical Greek and is perhaps related to the Lydian labrys (" double-edged axe ", a symbol of royal power, which fits with the theory that the labyrinth was originally the royal Minoan palace on Crete and meant " palace of the double-axe "), with-inthos meaning " place " ( as in Corinth ).

Zeus is depicted holding a double-edged axe.

In classical Greece the priests at Delphi were called Labryades ()-the men of the double axe .- The complex palace of Knossos in Crete is usually implicated, though the actual dancing-ground, depicted in frescoed patterns at Knossos, has not been found.

To date, the earliest copper smelting is found at the Belovode site, these examples include a copper axe from 5500 BC belonging to the Vinča culture.

Odysseus takes part in the competition himself: he alone is strong enough to string the bow and shoot it through the dozen axe heads, making him the winner.

The command to " cut the cards ", following by someone literally chopping the deck in half with an axe, is a none-too-subtle gag that has been used many times in popular media, going back to at least the vaudeville days.

Another comment he is believed to have made to the executioner is that his beard was completely innocent of any crime, and did not deserve the axe ; he then positioned his beard so that it would not be harmed.

In a fury, the man grabs an axe and tries to kill the cat but is stopped by his wife.

One of the earliest distinguishable stone tool forms is the hand axe.

After a few minutes the blows ceased and Mr. Gladstone, resting on the handle of his axe, looked up, and with deep earnestness in his voice, and great intensity in his face, exclaimed: ‘ My mission is to pacify Ireland .’ He then resumed his task, and never said another word till the tree was down.

A prayer for forgiveness was necessary before it could be chopped down with three strikes with axe, and carried on one's right shoulder as it is not allowed to touch the ground.

** Leon Trotsky is attacked with an ice axe in his Mexico home by NKVD agent Ramón Mercader.