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词条 Head on a spike
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Placing a severed head on a spike (or pike or pole) is a custom used sometimes in human history and in culture. The symbolic value may change over time. It may give a warning to spectators. The head may be a human head or an animal head.

Noted examples

  • Simon Fraser (d. 1306)
  • Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
  • Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 1658)
  • Staker Wallace (1733 – 1798)
  • John Murphy (1753 – 1798)
  • Vela Peeva (1922 – 1944)

Gallery

See also

  • Decapitation
  • Mouting points and synonyms:
    • spike, stake, pike, pole, pale, picket
  • Battlefield Cross, a symbolic replacement of a cross made up of the soldier's rifle stuck into the ground with helmet on top
  • London Bridge
  • Impalement, in which the object is alive at the time of penetration

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