[MR] Celtic Severed Heads - Want one for your home?

[Betty Eyer]

It doesn't TAKE all kinds, it's just that we HAVE all
kinds. 

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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Wendelken"
> <davewendelken at earthlink.net>
> To: <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 1:09 PM
> Subject: [MR] Celtic Severed Heads - Want one for
> your home?
> 
> 
> > 
> > The ancient Celts used to take the heads of their
> defeated enemies and
> > preserve them.
> > They would bring them out to show their guests and
> relate their defeated
> > enemy's heroic exploits.  All in all, a charming
> custom.
> > 
> > Personally, I like to put them up on spears around
> my encampment, wear
> > them on my belt, and throw them at my enemies in a
> melee.
> > They are also fun to bring out and show to my
> guests at parties.
> > 
> > Fuil and I will be making a goodly number of these
> over the next few
> > months and thought some other folks might want one
> (or five) for their
> > own purposes.
> > 
> > We make them out of styrofoam wig stands (they are
> like mannikin heads),
> > and cover the with flesh-colored t-shirt material.
> > Then, we add a touch of color to them.  You know,
> a few mottled bruises
> > and dried blood on the severed neck, that sort of
> thing.
> > We top them off with a head of hair and
> occasionally a mustache or beard
> > using a variety of materials.  My personal
> favorite is flax, for the
> > popular "dead Saxon look" in my persona's
> homeland.
> > 
> > They are a very effective shock tactic for a
> melee.  They don't count as
> > weapons, but they can sure bring disorder into the
> ranks of a unit that
> > has never experienced being bombarded by the heads
> of their friends and
> > relatives.  And they are perfectly safe!
> > 
> > They might be handy to have for Halloween.
> > 
> > Anyone want to make a few?  Materials cost will be
> about $5.  The
> > styrofoam heads are $3.50 of that amount, so if
> you find one in a garage
> > sale or a flea market for less, you might want to
> grab it.
> > I ordered a case of 24 heads (the only way I could
> find them in the time
> > I had alloted for it) and they should arrive in a
> few weeks.
> > 
> > Andras
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Magdalena de Hazebrouck-Purpure, a fess fusilly argent between three torches or. While Joshua was near Jericho, he raised his eyes and saw one who stood facing him, drawn sword in hand.  Joshua went up to him and asked "Are you one of us or of our enemies?" He replied, "Neither.  I am the captain of the host of the Lord and I have just arrived in this valley." Joshua 5, 13-14.

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