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.

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.

) His corpse was taken, after a short stay at the Basilica of Saint Dominic in Bologna, to the French royal necropolis at Saint-Denis, resting in Lyon on the way.

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.

Only if the corpse had been properly embalmed and entombed in a mastaba, could the dead live again in the Fields of Yalu and accompany the Sun on its daily ride.

For the three days that it rests on Earth, righteous souls sit at the head of their body, chanting the Ustavaiti Gathas with joy, while a wicked person sits at the feet of the corpse, wails and recites the Yasna.

Thetis buried him when the corpse washed up on Myconos.

He presented the embalmed corpse at court with a crown on her head and demanded that all his courtiers kneel and individually pay homage to her decomposed hand.

Frontman King Diamond, who wore ghoulish black-and-white facepaint on stage, inspired what became known as " corpse paint ".

A recorded legend from Trøndelag tells how a corpse lying on a beach became the object of a quarrel between the two types of draugr.

After an expert examined autopsy photos and noted what he thought might be the imprint of a belt buckle on Byers ' corpse, the elder Byers revealed to the police that he had spanked his stepson shortly before the boy disappeared.

Marat's body had to be periodically sprinkled with water and vinegar as the public crowded to see his corpse prior to the funeral on June 15 and 16.

The stories about the killer of Eurystheus and the fate of his corpse vary, but the Athenians believed the burial site of Eurystheus remained on their soil and served to protect the country against the descendants of Heracles, who traditionally included the Spartans and Argives.

Later on, her corpse raises from the grave and resumes her intentions to kill Ash.

In Have His Carcase, he finds Harriet is not in London, but learns from a reporter that she has discovered a corpse while on a walking holiday on England's coast.

A few days later, when the Bolsheviks gained control of the village, they unearthed Kornilov's coffin, dragged his corpse to the main square and burnt his remains on the local rubbish dump.

* Cadaver Synod, in 897, when Pope Stephen VI had the corpse of Pope Formosus disinterred and put on trial.

The rotting corpse of Formosus was exhumed and put on trial in the so-called Cadaver Synod ( or Synodus Horrenda ) in January 897.

With the corpse propped up on a throne, a deacon was appointed to answer for the deceased pontiff, who was condemned for performing the functions of a bishop when he had been deposed and for receiving the pontificate while he was the bishop of Porto, among other revived charges that had been leveled against Formosus in the strife during the pontificate of John VIII.

Confirming his continued support of the anti-Formosus faction, Sergius honoured the murdered Pope Stephen VI ( 896 – 897 ), who had been responsible for the " Cadaver Synod " that had condemned and mutilated the corpse of Pope Formosus, writing a laudatory epitaph on Stephen VI's tombstone.

The corpse was disinterred, clad in papal vestments, and seated on a throne to face all the charges from John VIII.

descends regardless and fights both Nazis and undead until he arrives at the ancient house of worship, the Defiled Church, where Nazi scientist Professor Zemph is conducting a ' life essence extraction ' on the corpse of a Dark Knight.

They can't figure it out on their own, and never learn — a few hours later, Pipo is found vivisected in the grass ; his corpse does not even have the benefit of a tree ( The symbol of honor placed among all dead piggies ).

Preserved corpse of the Tollund Man on display at the Silkeborg Museum

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.

John Vella uses Frankenstein's monster to illustrate the second interpretation: the corpse lying on Frankenstein's table is already a fully organized human body, but it is not yet alive ; when Frankenstein activates his machine, the corpse gains a new property, the property of life, which Aristotle would call the soul.

He discovers that a group of doctors have been gunned down and Barillo has bled to death as a result of a botched facial reconstruction, but realizes that the corpse on the operating table is a body double before he is knocked out and kidnapped by the real Barillo and Ajedrez, who reveals herself to be Barillo's daughter.

What's worse, the ship appears to be dissolving as McCoy is able to put his hand through a corpse and a table.

When he woke up, he was lying on a table in front of Praetorius, who was at that time a medical student examining what he believed was a corpse.

As the lightning strikes the tower again and again, the battery on the laser begins to charge and the corpse on the table begins to move.