The Dead Heads of Annecy A ghastly custom in Annecy, France: Cutting off the heads of the dead and displaying them in cases.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 22, 2014
in Death , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , religion , Strange Bodies , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Annecy France , bone house , cemetery , charnel house , decapitated skulls , excarnation , Geneva , relics , skull burial , skulls , The Dead Heads of Annecy
Twenty Acres of Skulls “It wasn’t war, it was murder.” Twenty acres of skulls at the Civil War battlefield of Malvern Hill–a memento mori for Memorial Day.
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Chris Woodyard
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May 25, 2013
in Death , Grim and Grewsome , News , Social History , Strange Bodies , Strange Deaths , Victorian , War
and tagged Battle of Malvern Hill , dead soldiers , memorial day , skulls , Twenty Acres of Skulls , war